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The accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant on 28 March 1979 was by common consensus the worst to occur in the history of commercial nuclear power generation in the United States. It is not surprising, therefore, that the accident provoked a series of assessments of its meaning as to the safety of nuclear power. Prominent among these was the President’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, popularly known as the Kemeny Commission.
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Kasperson, R.E., Gray, A. (1982). Societal Response to Three Mile Island and the Kemeny Commission Report. In: Kunreuther, H.C., Ley, E.V. (eds) The Risk Analysis Controversy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81940-7_5
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