Early in the morning of March 28, 1979 during routine operations a false reading on a valve caused the hot nuclear core of the reactor to be without water to cool it. The operators also wrongly thought the cooling system was full. The opposite was true. The core began to melt and build up of hydrogen took place in the building that housed it. The fear was that the nuclear core would melt through the floor and contaminate all the

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Approximate Word count = 434
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)