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Monday, September 24, 2012

Three Mile Island NPP in the News Yet Again - but Nothing to Worry About

Three Mile Island NPP in the News Yet Again - but Nothing to Worry About

On 20 September the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant experienced an automatic shutdown at 2:20 p.m.According to TMI NPP spokesman Ralph DeSantis, "There's absolutely no danger whatsoever to the public health and safety. We have design features in the plant that when something unusual occurs in the plant, the plant would automatically shut down and that's what happened today." The “incident” follows a TMI NPP shutdown on 22 August, when the facility closed automatically as workers were in the process of manually shutting it down…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Three-Mile-Island-NPP-in-the-News-Yet-Again-but-Nothing-to-Worry-About.html

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