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The twelve-member commission selected by Jimmy Carter is headed by Dartmouth College President John Kemeny, an eminent mathematician and nuclear expert, and has as members a balance of leaders from the sciences, politics, labor and academe. Nuclear power proponents had hoped that an unbiased investigation would find the Three...
Instead, the commission urged the President to prevent the start of construction or operation of any new plants in those states that have not completed satisfactory plans for dealing with a nuclear accident. Only 14 states have emergency plans that have been approved by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
China syndrome, in which the reactor core melts and burns its way into the earth, releasing potentially catastrophic radiation, had been a possibility at T.M.I.
The commission found that at least 30 tons of fuel in the upper portion of the reactor core, which had lost the protection of cooling water, had reached the dangerously high temperature of 4,000° F or more. A reactor would hit the meltdown point at about 5,200...
Met Ed's Unit No. 1, which had been routinely shut down before the accident in adjacent Unit No. 2, had been so poorly maintained that ''boron stalactites more than a foot long hung from the valves, and stalagmites had built up from the floor.''...