The Three Mile Island accident occurred on March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2  of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County,  Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg. It was the most significant accident in U.S.  commercial nuclear power plant ... It has been cited to have been a catalyst to the  decline of a new reactor ...
Johnny Isakson · "There has never been a death caused by a [commercial  nuclear] reactor in the United States, even when Three Mile Island failed in the  1970s.
The risks from western nuclear power plants, in terms of the consequences ...  There have been three major reactor accidents in the history of civil nuclear ...  17,000 cumulative reactor-years of commercial nuclear power operation in 33  countries. ... nuclear or other radioactive materials by non-state elements to  cause harm.
Three Mile Island is the site of a nuclear power plant in south central  Pennsylvania. ... at the plant caused the worst commercial nuclear accident in  U.S. history, ... new nuclear power plants have been built in the United States  since the accident. ... These further starved the reactor core of water flow and  caused it to overheat.
Aug 24, 2009 ... Unlike most conventional reactors that circulate water to be heated by the fuel ...  Due to the experimental nature of the SRE, it was built without a containment ... of  radiation released during the 1979 meltdown at Three Mile Island. ... prevent an  even larger disaster as workers compromised their own safety ...
There has never been a death caused by a [commercial nuclear] reactor in the United States, even when Three Mile Island failed in the 1970s.