The three mile island unit 2 decontamination and recovery collection

Clark County monitoring system

“…The incident, caused by human error, contaminated the surrounding area with a clean-up bill of about one billion dollars (Osif and Cunkling [10]). The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commissions' Fact Sheet on the Accident at Three Mile Island indicates that while there was some exposure of the population to radiation as a result of the TMI-2 reactor meltdown, children under the age of five and pregnant women were advised to evacuate the area surrounding the reactor as they were most susceptible to the harmful effects of radiation exposure.…”