In March 1979, a cooling malfunction in a nuclear reactor released radioactive gas in Middletown, Pennsylvania. Referred to as the Three Mile Island accident, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission cites this incident as the ‘most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history.’ Afterward, this led to significant enhancements in nuclear safety and even influenced nuclear legislation in other countries such as Sweden. A year later, the Swedish parliament held a referendum to decide the future of
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