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  • Events like Three-mile Island and Chernobyl certainly have done nothing to make nuclear power generation more lovable, but given good plant design, good oversight, and good management, all of them taking the risks inherent in such systems seriously, nuclear power has to be considered as a viable option.

    Making Light: Snowpocalypse Part Next 2009

  • Third, fear of a plant meltdown like Chernobyl or Three-mile Island seems unshakeable.

    Olivier Kamanda: Nuclear Fears And Our Stunted Debate On Alternative Energy 2008

  • Three-mile warm-up, mile of striders, three times six hundred with three hundred jog, mile jog, three times three hundred, mile jog, repeat three times, mile of striders, mile warm-down.”

    Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

  • All Sam w'd do is git a posse an 'take out after him an' they'd round him up 'fore he got to Three-mile.

    The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country 1921

  • In a far corner of the Three-mile Field Landless bent over tobacco plant after tobacco plant, patiently removing the little green shoots or

    Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

  • It was entitled "High Tide off the Three-mile Limit," and was a startling success.

    Ptomaine Street Carolyn Wells 1902

  • The track which led to the Three-mile showed before her, and she turned her horse on to it from off the main road.

    Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900

  • But no one knew where Slaughter was; no one had seen him in the township for days; and, as far as could be learned, there were no signs of his having been at the Three-mile for days; while Nellie held her peace, even when her baby came and died, and she almost followed it.

    Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900

  • Slaughter's bearing and conversation, when he was in the township, had upon the community effectually prevented any one else making the attempt to penetrate into the solitude of the Three-mile; and Slaughter lived his own life, in his own way, and no one knew more of it than had been learned in the first year of his residence in the district.

    Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900

  • Slaughter, left to himself, loosened his horse from where some one had hitched him to the fence, and led him, walking slowly, down the township road and away in the direction of the Three-mile.

    Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900

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