Three Mile Island
Named in 1 episode title on this site. Kind: nuclear-radiological.
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Kind | nuclear-radiological |
| Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident |
After the problem: the environment
| Ecological impact | ~43,000 curies of krypton-85 vented to atmosphere; ~2M nearby residents got ~1 millirem average dose above background |
|---|---|
| Mechanism / vector | contamination — damaged reactor core vented radioactive noble gases; 2.23M gal of accident water processed on-site |
| Remediation class | long-lived-radiological |
| Remediation status | NRC + licensee; defueling 1985-1990; accident water processed by 1993; TMI-2 in monitored storage since Dec 1993; license held by TMI-2 Solutions since 2020 |
| Interest (0–5) | 5 |
Sources
- nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html (fetched 2026-09-20)
Episodes that name it
- Episode 8: Three Mile Island — Well There's Your Problem, 2019-12-04