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Three Mile Island
A chain reactoin of events led to the worse nuclear disaster the United States has seen -
Three Mile Island
The NRC suggested that there should be an evacuation, but they decided not to do so. Instead citizens that lived near the accident were told to stay indoors -
Three Mile Island
Pregnant women and preschoolers had to evacute their homes because of the explosion, so that they will not be exposed to the radiation -
Three Mile Island
Everyone began to think that there would be additional explosion because of the hydrogen bubble -
Three Mile Island
After the hydorgen bubble subsided there was no need to evacuate everyone and the nuclear disaster ended -
Three Mile Island
The NRC officially declared the crisis over. Schools were able to re-open again, and pregnant women and preschoolers were able to come back home -
Three Mile Island
The NRC fines Metropolitian Edison, TMI's operator, $155,000 -
Three Mile Island
Metropolitian Edison pleads guilty -
Three Mile Island
While the workers were looking for damage inside the reactor they found a mound of rubble at the bottom of the vessel, this discovery leads to figure out how big the damage was -
Three Mile Island
Nuclear plans to build a TMI-2 after they finsih cleaning up TMI-1