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How Three Mile Island helped redefine fallout data collection

MAY 14, 2009
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Wired : Thirty years ago, half the core of a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear complex melted down, but government officials and the utility running the place didn’t know that. And they wouldn’t know for six more years.

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