The Nation - News from Aug. 15, 1985

Three thousand gallons of radioactive water spilled inside the containment building at Three Mile Island’s damaged nuclear reactor, a spokesman said in Middletown, Pa. In a separate incident, an electrical box in the turbine building short-circuited, causing a fire that went out when power to the box was shut off. The water spilled during a test when a coupling broke on a new pumping system that is to be used when fuel is removed from the damaged reactor, beginning in October. The reactor was crippled in March, 1979, when it lost cooling water, overheated and began to melt.