A report to the TMI community : Transcript of press conferece, Mary 27, 1980, Governor Dick Thornburgh of Pennsylvania, Harold Denton, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and four newspaper editorials about the venting and cleanup at TMI
Press conference transcript, Dick Thornburgh, Governor of Pennsylvania; Harold Denton, Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Harrisburg, PA, March 27, 1980.
Place of Publication
[S. l
Publisher
s. n.] ;
Date of Publication
1980.
Physical Description
20 p. ; 28 cm.
Notes
(The transcript is based on one originally issued by Governor Thornburgh's Press Office.)
Three Mile Island, Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania, April 30, 1980, Report Number Five.
Contents
Lancaster, Pa., New Era for March 21, 1980: Hysteria on the home front -- The Chronicle, Elizabethtown, PA for May 27, 1980: The vocal minority -- The New York Times for Mary 30, 1980: The venting at Three Mile Island --The New York Times for April 18, 1980: Nuclear fabulists.
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Publisher
Penguin Books,
Date of Publication
1982.
Physical Description
271 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
"Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown" is a 1982 book by Daniel Ford. Ford presents a "meticulous post-mortem of the events that nearly led to a meltdown" at the Metropolitan Edison station near Harrisburg in March 1979. He analyses the complex of people, technology, customs and regulations involved. Ford identifies regulatory failure and industry cost-cutting as the underlying causes of the Three Mile Island accident.Daniel Ford is an economist and former director of the Union of Concerned Scientists. [Wikipedia]
Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-149) and index.
Contents
Nuclear energy basics -- The accident -- The cleanup of TMI unit 2 -- Media coverage and public understanding -- The effect on the local community -- The impact of Three Mile Island -- Energy for the future.
