accidents at nuclear reactors in the United States ( defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$ 50,000 of property damage ) . The most serious of these was the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 . Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant has been the source of two of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents in the United States since 1979 . Relatively few accidents have involved fatalities
Three Mile Island accident
Three Mile Island accident
Nuclear reactor accidents in the United States