The government admitted that it is likely to raise the JCO Co. uranium-processing plant accident rating on an international scale to the same as that given the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear-power plant catastrophe.
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There could be the kind of meltdown, I guess, like occurred -- partial meltdown that occurred at Three Mile Island, and that would -- another agency might have the lead -- because they would have the expertise, so they would have the lead in responding to that.
In 1998, after a legislative battle, King signed a law granting, for the first time, island dwellers legal control of a three-mile ring of water around their island.
Forbes himself has been removed from the ballot in three Long Island districts -- two heavily Republican -- over a technical error.
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Worse, President Chandrika Kumaratunga's plan for a more devolved system of government designed to win over the milder sort of Tamils has not only been rejected by the Tigers but has also run into stiff opposition from many Buddhists, who make up nearly three-quarters of the island's population.
One estimate indicates that the number of people living on the entire Suoh-Ohshima island - including Towa and three similar communities - will halve by 2020.
At 42 years old, I competed in the Ultraman World Championships, a grueling three-day uber-endurance triathlon circumnavigating the Big Island of Hawaii that involves 6.2 miles of swimming, 260 miles of cycling and culminates with a 52.4-mile double marathon run.
The ongoing drama at the power plant in Fukushima -- a name now ranked alongside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl as history's worst nuclear accidents -- has erased the momentum the nuclear industry has seen in recent years.
"I think it is better right now if we let a little time pass and let this event and the people involved be honored and grieved, " Clinton told reporters covering his three-week vacation on the island of Martha's Vineyard.
The Ballyclare lad took part in a test session on a standard Honda Fireblade in Qatar at the end of last year and then was second fastest behind Australian Brock Parkes in a three-day test at Phillip Island, Australia, in January.
It's a three-day race covering 320 miles on the big island of Hawaii, including a 10-kilometer ocean swim, more than 260 miles by bike and a double marathon run.
On Sunday, the Clintons moved into an antique farmhouse on the vacation island for a three-week vacation, their longest in a decade.
The island-wide three-day count is due to start on Thursday.
She had been in regular contact with her family on Staten Island during her three-week trip, which included a preplanned excursion to Amsterdam and a stop in Munich before she returned to Istanbul.
The power station in the Vale already has five slow-speed engines and three gas turbines with which to produce electricity for the island - the oldest of which was installed about 35 years ago.
Twenty-three fires have scorched 472, 478 acres (738 square miles), an area roughly three-quarters of the size of Rhode Island.
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Malaysian troops are searching houses and terrain for armed members of a Filipino clan embroiled in a three-week conflict in Sabah on Borneo island.
The Standard Mortality Ratio for cancer in children dying before age ten rose in the period 6-10 years after the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents in populations most exposed to fallout.
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During December's three-day strike hundreds of children on the island used the steam train to get to school.
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The 825-megawatt pressurized water reactor at Three Mile Island, about 10 miles outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has been in service since 1974 and can power about 800, 000 homes.
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Separation is the new reality for the Gatti family, a clan of several generations that shared the same three-story home near the ocean on Staten Island until Sandy destroyed it.
After three Republicans -- Jeffords, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania voted for the amendment -- Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, changed his vote in favor of the measure, saying he hoped to come back later with a GOP counterproposal.
But the gang-rape in 1995 of a 12-year-old girl by three US service personnel led to moves to reduce the US military footprint there, amid island-wide outrage.
The 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown did not result in any measure-able uptick in thyroid cancer cases.
In December a three-day strike led to hundreds of children on the island taking the steam train to school.
This was followed by a three-year stint on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, where he was successor to the late Roy Plomley, who had created the castaway show.
Following the 1979 near-meltdown of a reactor at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island, the nuclear power industry suddenly had all the appeal of Dr. Strangelove in his doomsday bunker.
The game was the start of a three-game road trip for the Jets that includes stops in Long Island and Montreal.
Only 40 people at a time are allowed on the island's Thorsborne Trail - a 32km, three- to five-day wilderness hike - so you are guaranteed a bit of peace.
The gang-rape in 1995 of a 12-year-old girl by three US service personnel sparked outrage on the island and led to moves to reduce the US military footprint there.
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