about 90 percent of the amount in Michigan: $26,607 Â±$97 $34,500 Â±$17,135 Median household income about three-quarters of the amount in Berrien County: $44,993 Â±$1,009
These events played out three timesâat the US state of Pennsylvaniaâs Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in 1979, at then-Soviet Ukraineâs Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986, and at Japanâs Fukushima Daiichi in 2011.
Americaâs worst accident at a civilian nuclear power plant occurred on March 28, 1979. Unbeknown to anyone, half the fuel melted in one of two nuclear reactors on Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa. Large quantities of radioactivity leaked from the reactor, but most of it was contained.In all probability, no one received a harmful amount of radiation.nbeknown to anyone, half the fuel melted in one of two nuclear reactors on Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa. Large quantities of radioactivity leaked from the reactor, but most of it was contained. In all probability, no one received a harmful amount of radiation.