Nuclear waste: Scarcely watched trains
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- Kurion's Ion Specific Media, based on materials used for Three Mile Island Cleanup, is Available to Assist Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cleanup. // Biomedical Market Newsletter;4/30/2011, p85
The article reports on Kurion Inc.'s assessment on the cleanup of contaminated liquid from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan in 2011. It notes that the company's Ion Specific Media (ISM) will be used to remove radioactive isotopes. It also offers information on the company's...
- Response. // Environmental Health Perspectives;Aug1997, Vol. 105 Issue 8, p1
Comments on the views of several scientists on a paper on dose-response relationships in the analyses of cancer incidence in relation to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident. Issues raised by scientists concerning mechanisms that could account for a larger carcinogenic effect of...
- Three Mile Island. // Newsweek;11/19/84, Vol. 104 Issue 20, p62
The idea that the reactor at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania was close to meltdown is exaggerated badly. A study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy has backed up this statement. Also, the American Nuclear Society's findings indicate that the danger of radioactive emissions in...
- Cancer and Three Mile Island. Holzman, David C. // Environmental Health Perspectives;Mar2003, Vol. 111 Issue 3, pA166
Reports on the results of a 20-year follow-up study of Evelyn O. Talbott and colleagues' concerning cancer deaths among people living within a five-mile radius of the Three-Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania at the time of the accident. Comparison of deaths among the TMI...
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR. Colbo, Ken; Chambers, Craig; Allburn, David // National Underwriter / Life & Health Financial Services;4/18/2011, Vol. 115 Issue 8, p8
Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "It Doesn't Have to Be This Way," an article concerning the significance of information access on a particular industry in the March 21, 2011 issue, and article on the effects of the accident at...
- When the world stopped. Lavelle, Marianne // U.S. News & World Report;03/29/99, Vol. 126 Issue 12, p38
Recalls the accident at Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania in 1973. Problems which resulted in the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the history of the United States; Impact on townspeople and the nuclear power industry; Shut down of nuclear power plants across...
- Legacy of Three Mile Island. Shulman, S. // Nature;3/16/1989, Vol. 338 Issue 6212, p190
Reports that 10 years after the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, clean-up continues. Cost of $1,000 million. Turning point for the United States nuclear industry.
- The Impact of the Accident at the Three Mile Island On the Behavior and Well-Being of Nuclear Workers. Kasl, Stanislav V.; Chisholm, Rupert F.; Eskenazi, Brenda // American Journal of Public Health;May81, Vol. 71 Issue 5, p472
Abstract: In order to assess the impact of the accident at the Three Mile Island (TMI) telephone interviews were conducted six months later with 324 nuclear workers assigned to TMI and 298 workers assigned to a comparison plant at Peach Bottom (PB). Examination of PB-TMI differences, stratified...
- Three Mile Island alert gets library response. // Library Journal;5/15/1979, Vol. 104 Issue 10, p1098
Reports that libraries in Pennsylvania and nearby states responded rapidly to the crisis situation at Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the state. Preschool story hours and paperback book distributions organized at evacuation centers; Public forum debates on the threat of a similar disaster in...
