“We had to wait 5 years to learn that TMI had suffered a significant partial meltdown.”
Precisely why we cannot believe anything told to the press by the managers of TEPCO, the company that owns and operates the plants.
TMI’s owners got their PR people on it immediately. The word that went out to the public was—”We were twenty minutes away from a meltdown.”
As opposed to people who know nothing and aren’t there?
A good short article about the FUBAR at TMI. A lot of little things went wrong that added up to a BIG nuclear crisis:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/tmi/tmi03.htm