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For Those Living Nearby, the Memory of the Three Mile Island Accident Has a Long Half-Life
In mid-March 1979, Americans headed to the theaters to see The China Syndrome. Starring Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas and Jack Lemmon, the disaster thriller follows a broadcast journalist who ...
Three Mile Island nuclear accident: Here’s how it unfolded in 1979
The incident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power station in Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, according to the Nuclear ...
Three Mile Island partial-meltdown anniversary still sparks debate 46 years later
Three Mile Island's planned reactor restart revives nuclear energy debate and worries residents 46 years after the partial ...
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Foes and Friends of Nuclear Power Face Off Near Three Mile Island
On the 46th anniversary of the power plant’s partial meltdown, opponents pledged to continue their fight against a planned ...
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40 years ago, Three Mile Island had the nation on edge
a nuclear crisis was unfolding about three miles away from his Middletown, Dauphin County, home. Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 reactor had partially melted down that morning, releasing dangerous ...
'Never going back': Survivors protest Three Mile Island restart on 46th anniversary
A group of people who describe themselves as survivors of the Three Mile Island partial meltdown took to the Capitol to ...
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President Carter
The damaged reactor at Three Mile Island was not the first President ... Carter inspected the damaged plant. Middletown, Pennsylvania, Mayor Robert Reid later spoke of Carter's visit as providing ...