04-22-2005, 12:52 AM
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In a second article, MSNBC reports other events:
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Accident among top five since 1979, regulators say
Since the 1979 accident at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island, only three other events at nuclear plants had a higher probability of causing a meltdown than the corrosion at Davis-Besse, the report said. These events were:
The 1985 breakdown of feedwater pumps necessary to cool the nuclear core at the Davis-Besse plant, a seven out of 100 chance of core damage. ...
The 1981 damage ... at the Brunswick plant near Southport, N.C ...
The 1991 ... injection pump at the Shearon Harris plant southwest of Raleigh, N.C., ...
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