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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Douglas W. Akers, E. L. Tolman, Pui Kuan, Daniel W. Golden, Masahide Nishio
Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 1 | August 1989 | Pages 205-213
Technical Paper | TMI-2: Materials Behavior / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27648
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The results through 1988 of the postaccident inventory and distribution of selected radionuclides within the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor system are presented. Best-estimate inventories are presented for krypton (85Kr), cesium (137Cs), iodine (129I), antimony (125Sb), strontium (90Sr), ruthenium (106Ru), and cerium (144Ce). This inventory accounting includes all repositories in the TMI-2 reactor system. The accountability for principal radionuclides includes 144Ce (105%), 90Sr (93%), 137Cs (95%), and 85Kr (91 %). The accountability for radioiodine is similar to that for cesium. The principal repositories for cesium and iodine, and the noble gases, are the reactor building, and the reactor vessel for all other radionuclides.
