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.