NRC: News Release - 2004-023 - NRC Schedules Public Presentation and Webcast on March 3 on Three Mile Island Accident, 25 Years Later


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No. 04-023

February 18, 2004

NRC SCHEDULES PUBLIC PRESENTATION AND WEBCAST ON
MARCH 3 ON THREE MILE ISLAND ACCIDENT, 25 YEARS LATER
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a public presentation on the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, and how it changed the course of commercial nuclear power use in this country, at NRC headquarters on March 3.

The presentation will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the NRC’s auditorium at Two White Flint North, 11545 Rockville Pike in Rockville. It will feature the NRC’s Chairman, Nils J. Diaz; Commissioners Edward McGaffigan and Jeffrey S. Merrifield; the Executive Director for Operations,William D. Travers; and the agency’s historian, J. Samuel Walker, who has just published the fourth volume of the NRC’s history, Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. Immediately following the presentations, there will be a question and answer session for NRC staff and members of the public.

The discussion will cover some of the accident’s key events, as well as nuclear reactor safety improvements made in response to lessons learned from the accident, which unfolded from March 28 - April 1, 1979.

Members of the public should plan to arrive early to facilitate security processing. The entire session will be broadcast live over the Internet via the NRC’s Web site at this address: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/public-meetings/webcast-live.html.

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