Nuclear Power Industry Remembers TMI

This weekend, the nuclear power industry is remembering just how dangerous a field this really is. On March 28, 1979, just after 4:00 in the morning, a series of pumps supplying colling water to a reactor at Pennsylvania’ Three Mile Island shut down. This caused a partial meltdown of the reactor core, which heated up with no cooling water traveling to it. A chain reaction of failures and mistakes led to a bubble of hydrogen gas exploded, causing panic among people living in this region.
I wasn’t alive in 1979, but until about 2 years ago, I lived within an hour …read more