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The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the ...
The 2010 U.S. population within 10 miles (16 km) of Limerick was 252,197, an increase of 18.7 percent in a decade, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data for msnbc.com. The 2010 U.S. population within 50 miles (80 km) was 8,027,924, an increase of 6.1 percent since 2000. [12] Cities within 50 miles: Pennsylvania Philadelphia (28mi/45km)
A freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, United States on February 3, 2023, at 8:55 p.m. EST ( UTC−5 ). The Norfolk Southern freight train was carrying hazardous materials when 38 cars derailed. [ 1 ] Several railcars burned for more than two days and emergency crews also conducted controlled burns of several railcars, [ 2 ] which ...
Three Mile Island Unit 1. The Three Mile Island Unit 1 is a pressurized water reactor designed by Babcock & Wilcox with a net generating capacity of 819 MW e. The initial construction cost for TMI-1 was US$400 million, equal to $2.47 billion in 2018 dollars. [ 30] Unit 1 first came online on April 19, 1974, and began commercial operations on ...
Neighbors who lived within a 3-mile radius of the June 14, 2021, Chemtool industrial fire in Rockton have reached a $94.5 million preliminary settlement with the company. Neighbors, homeowners and ...
The Quiet Zone is an approximate rectangle of land, 107.0 miles (172.2 km) on the north edge, 109.6 miles (176.4 km) on the south edge and 120.9 miles (194.6 km) on the east and west edges, comprising approximately 13,000 square miles (34,000 km 2; 8,300,000 acres).
In Chicago, a typical city block is 330 by 660 feet (100 m × 200 m), [2] meaning that 16 east-west blocks or 8 north-south blocks measure one mile, which has been adopted by other US cities. In much of the United States and Canada, the addresses follow a block and lot number system , in which each block of a street is allotted 100 building ...
3, 4, 5, and 6 Columbus Circle are the numbers given to four buildings on the south side of 58th Street. From east to west, the buildings are numbered 5, 3, 4, and 6 Columbus Circle. [50] 5 Columbus Circle (also known by its address, 1790 Broadway), [111] is a 286-foot (87 m), 20-story tower on the southeast corner of Broadway and 58th Street ...