Papers filed in the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania regarding Three Mile Island litigation as a result of the 1979 nuclear accident. Each document includes lists of cases involving economic loss and the effects on the tourism industry. Class action litigation cases list individual court cases. Papers include plaintiffs' responses, motions, defendants' interrogatories, requests for production, court orders, complaints, entry of appearance, affidavits, memorandums, stipulations, reply briefs, and attachments.
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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
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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.
What Mark Stephens tries to do in Three Mile Island is to stick purely to the facts of what went down during the events. Stephens tries to cast a wide net and cover all the bases of the event, focusing heavily during the week that the meltdown almost happened. He covers the power plant, the workers, the town, the nearby cities, the government administrations, and most importantly, the actual physics behind what was causing the problem.
Contents: THE NUCLEAR POWER DEBATE // THE REGULATION OF NUCLEAR POWER // DEFENSE IN DEPTH // WEDNESDAY MARCH 28 - ""This is the Biggie " // THURSDAY MARCH 29 - " The danger is over for people off-site " // FRIDAY MARCH 30 - "Going to Hell in a handbasket " // SATURDAY MARCH 31 - " You're causing a panic " // SUNDAY APRIL 1 - "Look what we have done to these fine people " // THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF THE ACCIDENT // THE LONGTERM EFFECTS OF THE ACCIDENT.
Summary
This book is the first comprehensive account of the causes, context, and consequences of the Three Mile Island crisis. In gripping prose, J. Samuel Walker captures the high human drama surrounding the accident, sets it in the context of the heated debate over nuclear power in the seventies, and analyzes the social, technical, and political issues it raised. His superb account of those frightening and confusing days will clear up misconceptions held to this day about Three Mile Island. The heart of Walker's suspenseful narrative is a moment-by-moment account of the accident itself, in which he brings to life the players who dealt with the emergency: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the state of Pennsylvania, the White House, and a cast of scientists and reporters. He also looks at the aftermath of the accident on the surrounding area, including studies of its long-term health effects on the population, providing a fascinating window onto the politics of nuclear power and an authoritative account of a critical event in recent American history.
