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Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion from a Nuclear Reactor

Three Mile Island

Release on March 28, 1979, 0900 UTC

Plots of a unit mass plume at 3-hour intervals after release.


Local plume

Regional plume
Modified: December 4, 2019
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