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A poof of radioactive steam let loose. That's it, the whole incident. People freaked out on March 28, 1979.
In totally unrelated news, The China Syndrome, about a reactor meltdown, came out March 16, 1979.
https://whyy.org/articles/thyroid-cancer-study-re-ignites-debate-over-three-mile-island-accidents-health-effects/
I do not think anyone is suggesting that it wasn't a nuclear accident. Or suggesting that people did not get hurt as a result of it.
But the cause of the accident is extremely well understood, and was mostly down to Human error not a failure in their design.