[DOC] [TLE] Three Mile Island accident - Wikipedia [PAR] The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on 
March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating 
Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. ... The initial 
cause of the accident happened eleven hours earlier, during an attempt by 
operators to... [DOC] [TLE] Three Mile Island | TMI 2 |Three Mile Island Accident. - World ... [PAR] The reactor was destroyed but there were no injuries or adverse health effects ... 
plant in USA a cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in the #2 
reactor. ... The Three Mile Island power station is near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 
in USA. .... On Friday confused communications created the politics of fear." (
Page 50). [DOC] [TLE] NRC: Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident [PAR] The Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor, near Middletown, Pa., partially 
melted ... It also caused the NRC to tighten and heighten its regulatory oversight. 
... errors led to TMI-2's partial meltdown and very small off-site releases of 
radioactivity. ... There was no instrument that showed how much water covered 
the core. [DOC] [TLE] Radiation Is Released in Accident at Nuclear Plant in Pennsylvania [PAR] Front Page Image. Radiation Is Released in Accident at Nuclear Plant in 
Pennsylvania ... Follows Lead of Algeria and Libya- Other Nations Voice Fears- 
Air Fares May Go Up ... The precise cause of the accident was not determined. .... 
to the possibility of a massive meltdown- with an uncooled nuclear reactor core 
burning... [DOC] [TLE] 2 Nuclear Agency Aides Tell of Fears of Meltdown at Crippled Plant ... [PAR] May 1, 1979 ... 2 Nuclear Agency Aides Tell of Fears of Meltdown at Crippled Plant ... View page 
in TimesMachine ... Harold R. Denton, the commission's director of nuclear 
reactor ... at the Babcock & Wilcox reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. ... 
possibility of meltdown if the residual heat removal system were not... [DOC] [TLE] Three Mile Island - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com [PAR] An unlikely series of mechanical and human errors in Unit 2 of the nuclear 
generating plant at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1979 ... 
misread gauges, and poor decisions led to a partial meltdown of the reactor core 
... of radioactivity released was not a health threat, but antinuclear activists and 
many... [DOC] [TLE] Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive: The Truth About Nuclear Power ... [PAR] Even without new nuclear production, the inventory of commercial spent fuel in 
the U.S. ... an accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor in Pennsylvania. 
... close call of a catastrophic meltdown at the Davis-Besse reactor in Ohio in 
2002, ... The European heat wave in the summer of 2003 caused cooling 
problems at... [DOC] [TLE] What Went Wrong? - Three Mile Island [PAR] Without this pump, the turbine water could not remove heat from the steam 
generator. When this happened, the control rods automatically dropped into the 
reactor ... Print Friendly (pdf) - To print this page click on the this print friendly pdf 
file. ... fear was that the hydrogen might explode causing a breach of the reactor 
vessel... [DOC] [TLE] 25 years after the accident, here's what was said | Three Mile Island ... [PAR] Jan 12, 2009 ... Search this site: ... Events here would cause basic changes throughout the 
world's ... As pressure in the reactor increased, a release valve opened. ... 
meltdown at Three Mile Island was that no one knew what it meant. ... so did fears 
that TMI's Unit 2 would become an unstoppable 400-ton hydrogen bomb. [DOC] [TLE] Meltdown fear after nuclear plant blast - Sydney Morning Herald [PAR] Mar 13, 2011 ... A nuclear reactor damaged by Japan's biggest earthquake may be starting ... 
explosion inside a concrete reactor building at the Fukushima No. .... near the site
, Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spokesman Yuji ... 2 nuclear plant. ... in a 
near meltdown of the Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania in... [DOC] [TLE] Disasters: Nuclear Accidents - water

Question: It was the No. 2 reactor at this Pennsylvania site that caused fears of a meltdown
Answer: Three Mile Island