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March 28, 1979 1 min read

A stuck valve and a misread gauge almost turned Pennsylvania into a wasteland

A partial meltdown occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1979, when a cooling system malfunction caused the reactor core to overheat.

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