5 Worst Environmental Disasters Caused by Companies

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Three Mile Island

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The partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor at the Three Mile Island, which exposed the people within a ten-mile radius to about eight millirem to no more than 100 millirem of radiation; the disease rates further of the 10 mile radius were never studied. The meltdown resulted in the release of about 2.5 million curies of radioactive gases, and about 15 curies if iodine-131. The cleanup took 14 years and $1 billion, and was rated a five on a seven-point on the International Nuclear Event Scale.