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Shortly following the accident at Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2), GPU Nuclear Corporation established, along with Bechtel Power Corporation nuclear specialists, a containment assessment task force (CATF) to assess the radiological conditions of the TMI-2 reactor building (RB). The task force devised and executed a series of experiments and analyses to obtain data necessary for initial entry, RB purge, and RB recovery. The analyses and experiments were designed to assess