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A chain reactoin of events led to the worse nuclear disaster the United States has seen
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The NRC suggested that there should be an evacuation, but they decided not to do so. Instead citizens that lived near the accident were told to stay indoors
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Pregnant women and preschoolers had to evacute their homes because of the explosion, so that they will not be exposed to the radiation
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Everyone began to think that there would be additional explosion because of the hydrogen bubble
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After the hydorgen bubble subsided there was no need to evacuate everyone and the nuclear disaster ended
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The NRC officially declared the crisis over. Schools were able to re-open again, and pregnant women and preschoolers were able to come back home
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The NRC fines Metropolitian Edison, TMI's operator, $155,000
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Metropolitian Edison pleads guilty
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While the workers were looking for damage inside the reactor they found a mound of rubble at the bottom of the vessel, this discovery leads to figure out how big the damage was
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Nuclear plans to build a TMI-2 after they finsih cleaning up TMI-1