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Three Mile Island melts down
March 28, 1979
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
A stuck valve and misread instruments melted half a reactor core while operators believed it was covered in water. Little radiation escaped, but the confusion of the first days destroyed public confidence, no new American reactor ordered after it was completed for over thirty years.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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