The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Pennsylvania, United States.

It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.

The incident was rated a five on the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale : Accident With Wider Consequences ( Wiki )

  Perrow provides a detailed analysis of this accident.

  This guide proposes guidelines for avoiding various similar sources for this kind of accidents.

Updated on 17 Apr 2016.