Three Mile Island incident

In the Three Mile Island incident, the command signal to close the reactor relief valve was displayed, not the actual position of the valve (Kletz, 1988). Since the valve was actually open, the incident was worse than otherwise. 

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Some zeolites have a strong affinity for particular cations. Clinoptilolite (HEU) is a naturally occurring zeolite which sequesters caesium, and is used by British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) to remove Cs from radioactive waste, exchanging its own Na ions for the radioactive Cs cations. Similarly, zeolite A can be used to recover radioactive strontium. Zeolites were heavily used in the clean up operations after the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island incidents. 

Some of the most tragic and well-remembered accidents also had a start with a mini-modification made with a hose connection. The Bhopal Tragedy, the Three-Mile Island Incident, and the Flixborough Disaster were initiated by the improper use of hoses. 

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As anticipated, there have been occasional equipment failures involving reactors, but the safety systems have been sufficiently redundant so that one or more have always worked. Even in the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, the safety systems worked as designed. Much of the damage resulted from operator actions to override the safety systems. As concluded in the Reactor Safety Report, the limitations of the operator created and then seriously aggravated the Three Mile Island incident. Nevertheless, the features of the containment system prevented significant exposure to the plant personnel or any off-site individual, this despite failure of the barriers provided by the fuel cladding and the primary coolant system. 

LWR tests-to-failure had been performed to evaluate accident scenarios involving loss of coolant accident (LOCA) events such as occurred in the Three Mile Island incident. The power burst tests in a 20 MWt PWR have created fuel failures and defined the initiating conditions. The LOCA tests with a 50 MWt... 

Although the Three Mile Island incident of the 1970s and the Chernobyl disaster increased the awareness of radioactive gases in the atmosphere somewhat, radioactive xenon does not pose a significant health risk compared to other radioisotopes since it does not react with the environment and has a short half-life, hence it does not give the public much dose compared to other reactive radioisotopes such as Cs and Sr even though it is present in the air. 

The worst nuclear power accident in the U.S. occurred at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania. In this accident no one was killed and no one was directly injured. The event at Three Mile Island occurred from faulty instrumentation that gave erroneous readings for the reactor vessel environment. A series of equipment failures and human errors along with inadequate instrumentation allowed the reactor core to be compromised and go into a partial melt. The radioactive water that was released from the core was confined within the containment building and very little radiation was released. In the Three Mile Island incident, the safety devices worked as planned and prevented any serious injury. This accident resulted in improved procedures, instrumentation, and safety systems being implemented. 

Natural zeolites have played important roles as in clean-up from nuclear accidents. After the Three Mile Island incident, the SDS (Submerged Dcmineraliser System) made use of a 60/40 mixture by volume of IE-96 and LTA zeolite (A-51) from the then Union Carbide Corporation to immobilise 340,000 Ci of fission products from >1.5 million gallons of water [128], Phillipsite tuff, from Pine Valley Nevada, clinoptilolite, A-51, and IE-96 have all been used at pilot plant scale to deal with high salt, high activity, aqueous wastes at West Valley, New York- site of the PUREX plant used for reprocessing nuclear fuels from 1966 to 1972. 

Three-Mile Island Incident involved a hose... 

The Rolls-Royce prefabricated nuclear plant is a 300 MW power station mounted on two barges. The nuclear Island is contained on one barge and the conventional plant on the other. Essentially the nuclear Island consists of a compact 4-loop PWR using standard components and designed to meet UK safety criteria with appropriate equipment redundancy and diversity (Fig. 1). The reactor has been designed to take full advantage of PWR safety Improvements since the Three Mile Island incident in 1979. Basic data are given in Table 1. 

Roger C. Newman is a professor in chemical engineering and applied chemistry at the University of Toronto. He has worked in corrosion research since he started his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1977. From 1980 to 1984 he was at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he did basic research on corrosion and contributed to applied research programs associated with the Three Mile Island incident. Then he joined the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) as lecturer, progressing to professor by 1995. In 2004 he left to join the University of Toronto, where he holds an NSERC Senior Industrial Research Chair in association with the nuclear power industry. He has received most of the international awards for corrosion research, such as the Whitney Award... 

This is based on the Kepner-Tregoe method of rational decision-making. Change analysis compares a problem-free situation with a problem (accident) situation in order to isolate causes and effects of change. Change analysis is especially useful when the decision-maker needs a quick analysis, when the cause is obscure, and when well-behaved personnel behave differently from past situations, e.g. the Three Mile Island incident. 

Although there were some developments in the pursuit of an understanding of human error in industrial accidents in the decades inunediately following Heinrich s initial proposals, most notably the work of Bird and colleagues which led to the development of the International Safely Rating System (for example. Bird and Loftus, 1976), the topic remained relatively under researched until concern grew about human error potential in the nuclear industry, particularly after the Three Mile Island incident. 

The Three Mile Island incident—usually referred to by its initials of TMI—occurred at a nuclear power plant located near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in the year 1979. The island on which the facility is located gets its name from the fact that it is 3 miles long. 

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