Three Mile Island Incident

The Three Mile island Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located on a three mile island in Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna river. An accident there was the greatest in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. With failures in a secondary system valves, this led to large amounts of nuclear reactor coolants to escape in a primary system. Through human error, there was a mistake in the plant operating system leading to crystallized anti-nuclear safety concerns. This incident caused radioactive gasses and iodine to escape, and it costed $1 billion to clean up. A new program was founded to keep a better hold on the Nuclear Generating Stations, after president Jimmy Carter investigated the situation. He did say that this was a minor incident although this was not said to the public because the anti-nuclear groups had started protests. These protests lead to health funds for the citizen groups.