Global & Disaster Medicine

March 28, 1979: The worst accident in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry begins when a pressure valve in the Unit-2 reactor at Three Mile Island fails to close.

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**  The core eventually heated to over 4,000 degrees, just 1,000 degrees short of meltdown.

 

 

 


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