The Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) accident, which occurred on March 28, 1979, led industry and regulators to enhance strategies to protect against severe accidents in commercial nuclear power plants. Investigations in the years after the accident concluded that at least 45% of the core had melted and that nearly 19 tonnes of the core material had relocated to the lower head. Postaccident exa...

The Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant accident (1979) prompted the Pennsylvania Department of Health to initiate a cohort mortality study in the TMI accident area. This study is significant because of the long follow-up (1979-1998), large cohort size (32,135), and evidence from earlier reports indicating increased cancer risks. Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated to a...

In this paper we report on the first edit ion of the HEp-2 Cells Classificat ion contest , held at the 2012 edit ion of the Internat ional Conference on Pattern Recognit ion, and focused on Indirect Immunofluorescence (IIF) image analysis. The IIF methodology is used to detect autoimmune diseases by searching for ant ibodies in the pat ient serum but, unfortunately, it is st ill a subject ive m...

The lack of continuous soil moisture fields at large spatial scales, based on observations, has hampered hydrologists from understanding its role in weather and climate. The most readily available observations from which a surface wetness state could be derived is the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) observations at 10.65 GHz. This paper describes the first atte...

Fiber laser performances including transverse mode instability (TMI), stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) and optical-to-optical efficiency are in connection with the pump wavelength. Here we studied output characteristics of a 5-kW ytterbium-doped fiber oscillator pumped two different sources, i.e., 915 nm 981 diodes (LDs). The oscillators by have been compared strictly directly same structure h...