TMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its Impact
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (754 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0271027436 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 194 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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"NUCLEAR DEBATE PRIMER" according to Severin Olson. No one was killed and no homes destroyed, but TMI is one of our most famous disasters for the panic it created and the energy legacy it left us. Ignorant of the basics of nuclear power, thousands feared death for themselves and loved ones, or, pehaps, a Pennsylvania made uninhabitable for generations. Of course such fears proved groundless.A quarter century on, these authors discuss the basic fundamentals of the crisis. they point out how things were made much worse by near unive. Fukashima was foreseeable 1. The main feedwater system that supplies water to the steam generator malfunctioned and shutoff flow. "Water must be fed continually to the steam generators to make up for the flow of steam from the steam generators to the turbine.2. Maintenance was being performed on the condensate polishing system. The polishing system is used to purify water in the feedwater system.3. Alarms went off. An auxiliary feedwater system should have started automatically but it did not. The auxilia
Conkling is Head of the Engineering Library at The Pennsylvania State University.. Anthony J. Bonnie A. Osif is the Engineering Reference and Instruction Librarian and the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute Librarian at The Pennsylvania State University. Baratta is Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Head of the Nuclear Safety Center at The Pennsylvania State University.Thomas W
Three Mile Island burst into the nation's headlines twenty-five years ago, forever changing our view of nuclear power. After the accident and the cleanup, a significant collection of videotapes, photographs, and reports was donated to the University Libraries at Penn State University. The worst nuclear accident in U.S. history marked a turning point in our policies, our perceptions, and our national identity. TMI 25 Years Later offers a much-needed "one-stop" resource for a new generation of citizens, students, and policy makers. Bonnie Osif and Thomas Conkling are engineering librarians at Penn State who maintain a database of these materials, which they have made available to the general public through an award-winning website. The legacy of Three Mile Island has been far reaching. Political, environmental, and energy decisions have been made with TMI as a factor, and while studies reveal little environmental damage from the accident, long-term studies of health effects continue.TMI 25 Years Later presents a balanced and factual account of the accident, the cleanup effort, and the many facets of its legacy. Much has been written since then about TMI, but it is not easy to find up-to-date inform
Having played a role in the events the authors describe, I am impressed by their coverage of everything from reactor operation and regulation to effects on the surrounding community and the ten-year cleanup effort. They also do an excellent job of placing nuclear power in a long-term energy perspective.”—Harold Denton, Retired Director Division of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Nuclear Regulatory Commission“They have produced a very good book not only about TMI but also as an introduction to nuclear power and radiation effects and as a primer on the interaction of the media, the public, and the community in the development of governmental policy. With valuable primers on nuclear e