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Fact Sheet on the Three Mile Island Accident

"The accident at the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1979, was the most serious in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history." This site provides a summary of even ...

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html

U.S. Nuclear Plants in the 21st Century: The Risk of a Lifetime

Executive summary and full text of a 2004 report that discusses the safety of nuclear power plants "during the three stages of plant lifetime: the break-in phase, middle life phase, and wear-out phase." The report notes that several nuclear ...

http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/nuclear_safety/us-nuclear-plants-in-the-21st-century.html

The Future of Nuclear Power

This special report notes that the "U.S. -- and the world -- is gearing up to build a potentially massive fleet of new nuclear reactors, in part to fight climate change," and considers whether nuclear power can handle the load. Includes art ...

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-nuclear-option

Union of Concerned Scientists: Nuclear Power

Collection of material about Union of Concerned Scientists activities relating to "monitoring the performance of nuclear plants and their regulators." Features sections on how nuclear power works, nuclear power technology (including cooling ...

http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/

The Future of Nuclear Power

This 2003 report "discusses the interrelated technical, economic, environmental, and political challenges facing a significant increase in global nuclear power utilization." The report finds "prospects for nuclear energy as an option a ...

http://web.mit.edu/nuclearpower/

The Economics of Nuclear Power

This January 2009 article considers whether nuclear power production "is cost competitive with other forms of electricity generations." Discusses external costs, the cost of fuel, comparisons of electricity generation and costs of different ...

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf02.html

U.S. Nuclear Generation of Electricity

Statistics about nuclear energy in the U.S., where nuclear reactors "provide about 20 percent of the Nation's electricity." Find annual summaries of nuclear energy generation and capacity, state and reactor data, and links to other sources ...

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/nuc_generation/gensum.html

U.S. NRC: Nuclear Reactors

Background about U.S. nuclear power reactors, including a map of U.S. locations of reactors and profiles of reactors with performance summaries, inspection reports, escalated performance actions, and other details about the reactors. Also includes li ...

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors.html

Three Mile Island: The Inside Story

Presentation about "America's worst accident at a civilian nuclear power plant [which] occurred on March 28, 1979" on Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Diagrams, photos, and essays recount the details of the incident and its ...

http://americanhistory.si.edu/tmi/index.htm

The Chernobyl Catastrophe: Consequences on Human Health

This detailed April 2006 report evaluates the current and potential health consequences of the April 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Topics include cancer (thyroid, leukemia, and other cancers), and non-cancer illnesses (immune functions, endocrine ...

http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/chernobylhealthreport.pdf

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