[en] This article presents a comparison of the TMI-2 plant and the Philippine Nuclear Power Plant and cites the additional safety features present in the latter. The TMI incident is reviewed and implications with the Philippine nuclear programs are discussed. The conclusion is that the incident can be of substantial benefit to the Philippines if the associated political problems are properly handled. (RTD)

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[en] The sequence of events in the nuclear reactor accident at Three Mile Island on March 28, 1979, is reported. Three problems thought to trigger the reactor accident were a persistent leak of reactor coolant, a closing of two valves in the auxillary feedwater system, and an apparent resin blockage in the transfer line that forced water back into the condensate lines of the air pumps. Hindsight indicates that a large amount of the damage to the reactor core could have been prevented if operators had closed the electromatic relief valve to end the loss of coolant and not throttled down the high pressure injection pumps in the emergency core cooling system. Steps taken to reestablish control of the reactor core are described

[en] A discussion is presented of an overall perspective as it pertains to Three Mile Island prior to the accident and, problems and progress after Three Mile Island. 12 refs

[en] The analysis of the TMI reactor after the accident shows that the core damage was more severe, temperatures were higher, and coolant level was lower than first thought. The examinations revelead that the reactor containment was able to withstand higher loads and strains than calculated, and that even a partial core meltdown can be mastered by suitable cooling over a period of 3-4 hours after the failure started. The information now available also shows that with better training of the personnel, this accident could have been avoided. (DG)

[en] A discussion of the Three Mile Island accident, its causes, its major effects and what else may yet be learned from it is presented. (author)

[en] Details of the Three Mile Island accident are presented as excerpted from interviews with Nuclear Regulatory Commission investigators

[en] Within the framework of the ENC'79, the impact of the incident in the three mile island-2 nuclear power plant near Harrisburg has been the subject of a topical panel discussion. On this occasion, M. Levenson, head of the independent Industry Advisory Group set up after the incident, who has been in the nuclear power plant for four weeks until May 6, 1979, presented a detailed report to the participants of the panel discussion on the information obtained so far on the course of the event. The main terms of interest reported here refer to the organisation of relief measures and the assignment of responsibilities, of which those not directly involved had only a rather blurred idea so far, as well as to the series of technical events and measures about which the public has been somewhat puzzled, as e.g. the blowdown value that remained open, water leakage from the containment, the closed values of the auxiliary feed water system, and above all the problem of core meltdown and the formation of the gas bubble in the pressure vessel. Although a through analysis of the incident will only be feasible after the current investigations will have been completed, some essential questions, relating to the actual hazard e.g., can to a great extent be answered already now. (orig./HP)

[en] This supplemental title list of publicly available documents pertaining to Three Mile Island Unit 2, Docket 50-320, includes those preincident and postincident documents filed in the NRC Public Document Room between July 1, 1979 and October 31, 1979. It is divided into preincident and postincident listings, with both listings sub-divided into the categories used for filing and searching in the NRC Public Document Room

[en] This report presents the planning of the decontamination undertaken after the accident of TMI-2 from october 1979 to september 1988