On March 28, 1979 Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant in the United States of America an incident would lead to a partial reactor core meltdown. Many blamed the operators for stopping the reactor cooling system but the real root causes showed a known flaw in the design and alarm flooding had blinded the operators to what was actually happening.
With John Chidgey.
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• Three Mile Island accident
• Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station
• Nuclear Regulator Commission renews Three Mile Island Unit 1s License
• Nuclear accident and recovery at Three Mile Island
• Three Mile Island Accident
• Measuring Radiation
• Three Mile Island Engineering Report
• Three Mile Island Accident Health Effects
• Facts and Information About Radiation Exposure

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