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We Almost Lost Detroit

John G. Fuller

A valuable contribution to the debate over nuclear power, this book documents the Fermi accident that so frightened the AEC and nuclear industry that they did not want the details and significance leaked to the public. At the time of the publication of this book, many critics of nuclear power were d...

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American Scandal

It is a book about the partial meltdown at Fermi One, a breeder reactor on the shores of Lake Michigan; it was mentioned as being unrelated to the Three Mile Island incident but of significance.

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The partial meltdown was at a different type of plant altogether, a breeder reactor called Fermi One. And it's memorialized in quite a good book called We Almost Lost Detroit, but it had nothing to do...

— Episode: Three Mile Island | Responding to Crises...

Episode: Three Mile Island | Responding to Crises | 4

It is a book about the partial meltdown at Fermi One, a breeder reactor on the shores of Lake Michigan; it was mentioned as being unrelated to the Three Mile Island incident but of significance.

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The partial meltdown was at a different type of plant altogether, a breeder reactor called Fermi One. And it's memorialized in quite a good book called We Almost Lost Detroit, but it had nothing to do with what happened at Three Mile Island.

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