But when they happen at a nuclear power plant, who gets told, and when? That’s a question that some neighbors of the still-shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power stations are asking after recent ...
It’s called the pilot-operated relief valve, and it sits atop the pressurizer attached to the Unit 2 reactor of Three Mile Island. It is often referred to as PORV, and something went very wrong with ...
The dome of the containment building has been hoisted into place at the second unit of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction in the UK. The milestone marks the end of the major ...
Three Mile Island brings back memories of the horrors of a nuclear accident. The event occurred near Harrisburg (Pa.), in March of 1979. The Unit 2 reactor core partially melted down when equipment ...