Also remember that many nuclear power plants were located by rivers and oceans for a reason - in a worst case you could see them using that to cool the spent rods - but at a cost of contaminating the river, lake, seacoast, etc..
and again another reason for Three Mile Island being operational or at the least the rods kept properly cooled - as Allegheny Uprising says the governor is in Harrisburg with a force of troops to keep the area under control - which woudlnt have happened if it had melted down and spread radiation over the entire area (its basically right next to Harrisburg)
that implies either a successful shutdown and the spent rods are being properly cooled - or its operational in some way
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