Netflix’s documentary series “Meltdown: Three Mile Island” provides a solid insight into the days of March 1979, when Middletown and a larger part of Pennsylvania were gripped by the fear of a nuclear meltdown. Combining documentary-style footage and interviews with fictional recreations of certain events, which has become a staple style of most Netflix documentaries by now, the show also follows the mismanagement around the accident and the investigation that followed.
On the morning of March 28th, 1979, numerous alarms started going off simultaneously in the control room of unit 2 of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. Despite multiple operators being present in the control room, the odd timing of the event, and also the unprecedented nature of it, left all workers confused and baffled about what was actually happening. Noticing the rising core temperature in the reactor and the level of water in the chamber shown to be almost full, one of the operators called for shutting down the pumps taking water into the reactor to cool it down. It is made very evident by the interviewees who talk about the incident in the present in front of the documentary crew, that cutting off coolant from a heating nuclear reactor is the worst thing to do at any time. Soon, a radiation protection supervisor was brought into the facility, and the operators now realized that a release valve in the reactor coolant chamber was...
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