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 * Clip F: Three Mile Island Disaster[[image:3mile_island_accident.jpg width="260" height="144" align="right"]] **


 * A. Vocabulary **

Before watching the video, use a dictionary or other source to ensure that you understand the meaning of all the vocabulary words in the box. All of these words are used in the video.

mushroom cloud, trivial, zig-zag, cooling pump, core (nuclear) reactor, relief valve, interaction, coolant, melt doomed, large-scale, consume, slave, reproduce fail, industry, luxury, instant, crucial Uranium, boil, resume, shatter, radiation, loss of life

or follow this link if you have a problem watching it on this site >> @http://youtu.be/HfM6eO772p8 media type="file" key="Three Mile Island Disaster.wmv" width="300" height="300"
 * B. Now watch the video as many times as you need in order to understand it. **


 * C. After watching the video, think about the answers to the following questions: **
 * 1) What year was the first nuclear test in America?
 * 2) What was located at Three Mile Island?
 * 3) On the day of the TMI disaster, how many things went wrong? Were they serious?
 * 4) Did the operators follow standard procedures during the TMI disaster?
 * 5) What date did the disaster begin?
 * 6) What was the first problem to occur that day?
 * 7) What was the second problem?
 * 8) What did the operators do then?
 * 9) What happened to the core when it dried up?
 * 10) What does the video say about containment of radiation?
 * 11) How many people died?