Скачать или смотреть 🔥 Firefighter Cooled Reactor for 6 Hours and Prevented Explosion ☢️💧

On March 28, 1979, Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, 4:37 AM, nuclear reactor accident. Cooling system failed. Core temperature 4300 degrees and rising. 90 minutes until meltdown. Evacuation of Middletown city began, 140,000 people. Firefighter James Floyd, 44, volunteered to stay. Manually pumped water into cooling system with 80-pound pump. 40 pumps per minute. Without radiation protection. Alone in reactor hall. Worked 6 hours 12 minutes without break until engineers started backup system. Temperature dropped to safe level. Explosion prevented. Floyd received 340 rem radiation. Thyroid cancer in 2 years. Died in 1989. Before death told journalist: If I leave, city disappears. I made right choice. Hero of atomic era.

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