The Three Mile Island accident, a partial nuclear meltdown, resulted from a complex sequence of mechanical and human errors. A non-nuclear malfunction in the secondary cooling circuit initiated the event. This malfunction,... Read more »
The partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station’s Unit 2 reactor, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in March 1979, remains a significant event in the history of nuclear power. A combination... Read more »
The March 1979 accident at a Pennsylvania nuclear generating station resulted in the partial meltdown of reactor number 2. A combination of equipment malfunctions and operator errors led to a loss of... Read more »