The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has today opened the archives on its reporting and analyses of the nuclear incident at Three Mile Island and the aftermath. This diary consists of links to each of the (PDF) articles.
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This is the third in a series of diaries linking to reporting and analysis in the Bulletin.
Previous articles in this series are:
1. links to current articles on the lessons of Fukushuma in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
2. links to articles in the Bulletin on the current crisis in northeast Japan.
From the Bulletin archives: Selected readings on Three Mile Island
The nuclear crisis in Japan following the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11, has brought the past tragedies at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl into the spotlight again. To offer a more thorough understanding of Three Mile Island, the Bulletin has compiled this readling list from its archives. Dating from 1945 to 1998 and 1998 to present, the Bulletin's archives are a valuable resource for those interested in additional materials.
In addition, Tatsujiro Suzuki has been adding one or two sentence factual briefs on the latest developments at the Fukushima reactors each day.
Suzuki is a member of the Nobel Prize-winning Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in Japan. The goal of these daily briefs is to inform the public for better and accurate understanding of what is happening in Japan.
Three Mile Island: The battle of Unit 1
by Edward J. Walsh, BAS May 1985 What began as a brief refueling pause has stretched into six years as the restart of Three Mile Island's other reactor has become the focus of charges against the utility and the NRC.
Three Mile Island: Meltdown of Democracy?
by Edward J. Walsh, BAS March 1983
As the government considers restarting the Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor, local opposition remains strong. This case raises fundamental questions about democratic decision making in the age of high technology.
Containment of a reactor meltdown
by Frank Von Hippel and Jan Beyea, BAS August/September 1982 Was the nuclear industry concerned that accident mitigation techniques, such as off-site preparations for emergencies and retrofitting with filtered venting systems, could be interpreted as tacit admissions that serious accidents can happen?
Excerpts from the President's Commission Report on the Accident at Three Mile Island
BAS January 1980
"Wherever we looked we found problems with the human beings who operate the plant; with the management that runs the key organizations; and with the agency that is charged with assuring the safety of nuclear power plants."
Commentary from London: Harrisburg ist überall
by Walter C. Patterson, BAS June 1979 "No soothsayer reading the entrails for the nuclear industry ever found a more unambiguous omen. . ." As Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker opened hearings in Hannover, West Germany on March 28, 1979, on a plan to build the world's largest civil nuclear installation, a feedwater pump failed on TMI.
Three Mile Island: Health Study Meltdown
by Joseph Mangano, BAS September/October 2004 A quarter century after the accident at Three Mile Island, remarkably few questions about the health effects of that near-catastrophe have been asked-let alone answered.
The Kemeny Commission Report
by William Lanouette, BAS January 1980 The final report on Three Mile Island offered within its voluminous pages almost any message an attentive reader wants to find.
Commentary from Washington: No longer can the NRC say . . .
by William Lanouette, BAS June 1979
Future prospects for nuclear power suffered a severe blow at Three Mile Island. Did the accident portend a "new beginning or "the beginning of the end"?
Institutional responses to Three Mile Island
by Jean X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, C. Hohenemser, and R.W. Kates, BAS December 1979 Public fears of nuclear accidents raise difficult problems for democratic institutions. Who can judge the risk? Who can fashion an energy policy?
Environmental liabilities of nuclear power
by John Holdren, BAS January 1980 The message from Three Mile Island that rightly received the most attention in almost every post mortem: Beware of human frailties.
The impact of Three Mile Island
by Victor Gilinsky, BAS January 1980 The accident at Three Mile Island presented the U.S. nuclear power industry with very serious problems but, writes Commissioner Gilinsky, the industry was already in serious trouble.