That night, Walter Cronkite led the CBS Evening News by saying, “We are faced with the remote, but very real, possibility of a nuclear meltdown at the Three Mile Island atomic power plant.
December — Shippingport, Pennsylvania is the site of the first full-scale nuclear power plant in the U.S. The ... Dedication ceremonies for Three Mile Island Unit 2 are held in Harrisburg ...
Matthew Miller For Earl Showalter today’s shutdown of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is like the funeral of a friend who died a senseless death. Showalter lives in a development ...
In March 1979, a tense situation developed at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant just southeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, when a series of pumps that held cooling water for the ...
YEAH. LAURA, TO BE CLEAR, WE’RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE REACTOR UNIT. THAT WAS INVOLVED IN THAT 1979 PARTIAL MELTDOWN. BUT INSTEAD, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF SPECULATION THAT THE OTHER REACTOR UNIT ...