1. Lindsey Landolfi
Professor Lahneman
IHSM 611-001

2. Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station
Harrisburg, PA Baltimore, MD 79.3 mi
Harrisburg, PA Philadelphia, PA 106 mi
Harrisburg, PA Washington, DC 120 mi
Credit: 2000 United States Disaster Preparedness Institute (USDPI) Credit: Google – Imagery , 2011
Graphic Adjustments; L. Landolfi

3. International Atomic Energy Agency’s
International Nuclear Event Scale
for prompt communication of safety significance
• Chernobyl, Ukraine 1986
• Kyshtym, Russia 1957
• Three Mile Island,
USA 1979
Credit: The International Atomic Energy Agency. Graphic Adjustments; L. Landolfi

4. Three Mile Island Pressurized Water Reactor Schematic
Credit: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Graphic Adjustments; L. Landolfi

5. Three Mile Island Unit 2 Control Room Design
Credit: Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. Graphic Adjustments; L. Landolfi
A Nuclear Regulatory Commission
inspector examines the TMI-2
control room.
Credit: National Archives

6. Post- Three Mile Island Unit-2
Loss of Coolant Accident
Met Ed technicians and radioactive TMI employee monitoring radiation levels ,
material cleanup crew in protective across the Susquehanna river from the
gear. disabled TMI-2 reactor containment building.
Credit: AP Photo Credit: AP Photo. Graphic Adjustments; L. Landolfi

7. Three Mile Island 25 Mile Radius Fallout Map
Fear of radiation exposure
prompted voluntary
evacuations in the residential
areas near the TMI facility.
Credit: Nuke Times Credit: AP Photo

8. Three Mile Island Transformation from
Public Asset to Liability
Cooling towers at Three Mile Island. Credit: Dan Miller/Time Magazine/Time
& Life Pictures/Getty Images
An April 9, 1979 issue of TIME
magazine highlighting the Three Mile
Island nuclear controversy.

9. Connection Between Media, Publics, & Politics
On March 30 , 1979 Walter Cronkite, to lead the CBS Evening News by saying,
“we are faced with the remote but very real possibility of a nuclear meltdown at
the Three Mile Island atomic power plant.”
A film dramatizing the dangers After the TMI accident, an issue of Mad
of nuclear power, “The China magazine featured Alfred E. Neuman, the
Syndrome” was released 12 days fictional mascot of Mad magazine, with his
prior to the TMI accident. intellectually incurious motto, "What, me
worry?" changed to, "Yes, me worry!"

10. Federal Investigation of the Three Mile Island Accident
Credit: Library of Congress
President J. Carter and
John Kemeny, Head of the TMI
(Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1979) Presidential Commission

11. Testimony to the Commission
Seated (1 to R) Garry Miller, Earnest Blake, William Zewe,
TMI station manager; Met Ed legal council; TMI-2 & TMI-1 shift
George Kunder, Fred Scheimann, supervisor;
TMI-2 superintendent TMI-2 shift foreman; Edward Frederick and
for tech. support. Craig Faust;
TMI-2 control room
Credit: Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island operators

12. Anti-Nuclear Power Campaigns
Protestors rallying
at the Pennsylvania
Capitol following
the Three Mile
Island accident.
Credit: National Archives
Giugni, M. (2004). Social protest and policy change. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield.

13. Radiation Emission and Cancer Incidence
within 10 miles of Three Mile Island
Data source: Environmental Health
Perspectives, vol. 5, no. 1, jan. 1997.
Graphic: J. Bryan, Endeavors, vol. XIV,
no. 1, Fall1997, and J. Trostle

14. Nuclear Regulatory Commission License Renewal Process
Onsite Inspection
Inspection(s) Report(s)
Issued **
License Renewal
Application **
Submitted to NRC Safety Advisory
Safety Safety
Evaluation Committee ACRS
Evaluation Evaluation
Report with on Reactor Review **
Audit & Report
Open Items Safeguards
Review Issued**
Safety Review Issued** (ARCS)
Review
ACRS
Letter Issued **
Licenses Renewal
Process &
Environmental
Scoping Meetings NRC Decision on
Hearings*
Application**
Environmental
Review
Draft Final
DSEIS
Environmental Supplement to Supplement to
Public
Audit the GEIS the GEIS
Meeting
Issued** Issued
Opportunities for Public Interaction
* If a Request for Hearing is Granted
** Available at www.nrc.gov
Credit: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Graphic Adjustments; L. Landolfi

15. NIPP and Nuclear Sector-Specific Plan
Risk Management Framework
Credit: U.S. The Nuclear
Reactors, Materials, and Waste
Sector-Specific Plan, 2010
Performance and safety enhancements of
nuclear facilities lead up to a recent revival
of the nuclear industry. The TMI Unit-1
license was renewed in 2009.
Exelon Emergency Plan details the
procedures designed to protect the
public in event of a nuclear emergency.
Credit: Exelon Corporation

16. Emergency Planning for Three Mile Island Area
Emergency Alert System
Credit: Exelon Corporation Credit: Exelon Corporation
TMI evacuation map detailing evacuation List of EAS communication sources;
routes and reception centers. radio and TV.