On March 28, 1979, at 4 A.M. the partial meltdown of reactor 2 at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant began. In December 1993 the cleanup of the disaster was finally completed. May 4, 2022 Netflix released a 4 part documentary titled "Meltdown: Three Mile Island" and suddenly Three Mile Island became a hot topic once again. The partial meltdown of unit 2's reactor at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant is still the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. And as we find out in this documentary, the reactor at Three Mile Island was only about 30 minutes away from full meltdown. To put that in perspective, it was 30 minutes away from being on the same level as the meltdown at the nuclear plant in Chernobyl! Now if you don't already know, Three Mile Island just so happens to be located here in central Pennsylvania. And since it's only about an hour away from us we took a drive out there to get a few pics for this episode. After the meltdown of the reactor of unit 2, unit 1 stayed in service and continued generating power up until it was shut down on September 20, 2019.
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