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To: dirtboy

The article badly mischaracterizes the Three-Mile Island accident, treating it as steam generator tube rupture, when it was actually a small-break LOCA, in effect.


21 posted on 01/14/2014 1:34:25 PM PST by bagman
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To: bagman

TMI had a failure of the pilot-operated relief valve on the pressurizer along with the associated instrumentation which showed the valve had closed.

http://www.threemileisland.org/science/what_went_wrong/


25 posted on 01/14/2014 1:49:21 PM PST by meatloaf (Impeach Obama. That's my New Year's resolution.)
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To: bagman
Jimmy Carter with his wife at TMI 5 days after the event:


26 posted on 01/14/2014 1:49:28 PM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss you, dad. :()
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