On the messaging side, there's an impressively large collection of emoticons (TMI-face, anybody?).

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Lee said TMI is one of 12 companies that have demonstrated working cells.

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The musician and renowned over-sharer John Mayer addressed a related point when he announced his TMI migration from Twitter to the Tumblr blogging platform.

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That thinking changed on March 28, 1979, when a small valve stuck open, cooling water escaped and the reactor core of TMI's Unit 2 began to melt.

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Despite all of the frightening reports that dominated TMI media coverage at the time of and over years since the accident, the important lost message is that no one was injured or killed, and very little radiation was released.

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But according to follow-up studies reported by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the resulting average dose of radiation that about 2 million people in the TMI area received amounted to 1 millirem, six times less than exposure to a single standard chest x-ray.

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In partnership with a local technical college, Stark State in Canton, and Lockheed Martin, TMI is developing a military application that promises to greatly reduce the need for a front-line unit to transport and secure large quantities of gasoline or diesel fuel.

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