Tag: Radiation Monitoring
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Episode 5 — The plant that kept running
Dateline: 28 March 1979, control room, Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, 1000 River Road, Middletown, Pennsylvania The Harrisburg Patriot-News reported that operators noted a loss of feedwater at 4:00 a.m. and initiated emergency cooling under existing procedures. Radiation monitors registered a brief rise before returning to background levels by mid-morning. The paper stated that…