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Three Mile Island Unit 2 Core Region Defueling
Nuclear Technology / Volume 87 / Number 4 / December 1989 / Pages 1112-1116
Late Paper / TMI-2: Decontamination and Waste Management / Nuclear Safety / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27702
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The damage to the Three Mile Island Unit 2 core was extensive. The accident created a central void ∼1.5 m deep, extending almost to the periphery of the core. All of the original 177 fuel assemblies showed some signs of damage. It took a total of 5 yr of data acquisition, planning, equipment design, and defueling operations to complete the removal of the damaged core.
