GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Chernobyl is widely acknowledged to be the worst nuclear accident in history, but a few scientists have argued that the accident at Fukushima was even more destructive. Both events were far worse than the partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fukushima was a boiling water reactor (BWR), Chernobyl was a graphite moderated boiling water reactor, and TMI was a pressurized water reactor (PWR). This book traces the history of nuclear power and the development of each reactor type.

Detailed explanation-3: -Because of the safety features in the Three Mile Island reactor, catastrophic consequences were avoided. Unfortunately, Chernobyl turned out to be the global scale nuclear catastrophe that was narrowly avoided at Three Mile Island.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Fukushima accident was an accident in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi (“Number One”) nuclear power plant in Japan. It is the second worst nuclear accident in the history of nuclear power generation, behind the Chernobyl disaster.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor, near Middletown, Pa., partially melted down on March 28, 1979. This was the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history, although its small radioactive releases had no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public.