Three mile island was a success story. No one was hurt, killed or even exposed to a siginficant amount of radiation. There was a loss of coolant. This could not happen in our current plants.
In the United States the average person is exposed to about 250 millirems of radiation per year. About 130 of the 250 millirems we absord yearly comes from cosmic rays, the earth and stone building materials. If you live in a stone or brick building you receive around 30 millirems per year from the small quantity of radioactive substances in the minerals in the stone. The total dose of radiation received by the average person from nature is aabout 155 millirems. An additional 95 millirems is from man made sources like X rays and color TV sets. The people near by Three Mile Island were exposed to about 1.4 millirems.
Posted by: Brian | September 4, 2007 10:32 PM
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