Exelon's Three Mile Island plant is scheduled to prematurely close in September 2019. The company has been lobbying for help from the state to keep it open.
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Three Mile Island accident has implications now
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Exelon's Three Mile Island plant is scheduled to prematurely close in September 2019. The company has been lobbying for help from the state to keep it open.
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TMI’s nuclear accident inspired a board game rooted in a then-6-year-old’s way of passing time as his family grappled with the events unfolding nearby. WITF’s Digital Manager Lisa Wardle has this story about the game and other ways in which the incident has influenced popular culture. -Emily Previti, Newsletter Producer/Reporter
TMI today
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Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa.
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The goal of a forthcoming podcast from WITF’s Tim Lambert and PennLive’s John Luciew is to take listeners back four decades and relive the moments following TMI’s partial meltdown. It’s not dropping in full until later this week, but you can catch a bit of a preview here.
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Since the accident, the population living within 10 miles of the plant has grown by more than two-thirds — and roadway expansions haven’t exactly responded in kind. If something similar happened today, traffic would be moving about three miles per hour, reports PennLive’s Ron Southwick in this look at how (ill?) prepared Central Pa. is at present for a mass evacuation.
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“The official conclusions remain: No resident died or was harmed due to the TMI accident. No one was put in danger. That decree has stood in sharp contrast to the narratives that emerged among some of the residents who lived in the vicinity of the plant and experienced the accident unfold,” writes PennLive’s Ivey DeJesus in her story about the lingering questions about links between the accident and cancer cases.
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Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke visited Penn State University Park on Tuesday, March 19.
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“Pennsylvania is the sixth-largest electoral prize for Democrats seeking the party’s nomination and, next year, it will be the last of the delegate-rich states to vote, except perhaps New Jersey,” writes Marc Levy in this Associated Press analysis of the commonwealth’s importance in 2020.
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The number of suicide deaths in Lebanon County in 2018 was up nearly one quarter from the year prior; 23 percent were veterans. More here from the Lebanon Daily News.
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Students walked out of classrooms throughout PIttsburgh in protest of former East Pittsburgh cop Michael Rosfeld’s exoneration last week on homicide charges for the fatal shooting of teenager Antwon Rose II last summer. The walkout continued demonstrations, which included a vigil on Sunday, in the wake of the verdict.
