Eight times the deadly level. So strong that after passing through a three foot thick concrete wall it can be measured a while away. Gary shepherd reports from harrisburg. The accident occurred here at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant a dozen miles south of harrisburg. At 4 00 this morning, two water pumps that helped cool reactor number two shut down. Officials say some 50,000 to 60,000 gallons of water escaped into the reactor building and that the radioactivity penetrated the plant walls. Steam escaped into the atmosphere and radiation was detected as far as as a mile away. At least 50 workers and perhaps twice that number were at the plant when the accident occurred. A spokesman admitted some were exposed to radioactivity and may have been contaminated. But he claimed no one was injured. All workers were given extensive checkwi checks as they left the plant. This is what reactor 2s control room looked like last september. It went into commercial Service Three months ago. C
2, at the facility in dolphin county, pooh. It occurred 40 years ago. The incident rated a 5 on the 7 Point International Nuclear Event scale. Heres how ed bradley of cbs news covered it. This time no evacuation. Please stay inside. Middletown at this time is evacuation. Please stay indoors with your windows closed. This is not a community that scares easily. Major floods and hurricane agnes have come here and the town has survived. But for almost a week last month, the people of middletown, pennsylvania, lived in fear of an enemy they couldnt see, hear, or feel. Cbs news, of course that fear was radiation following the partial meltdown at tmi, the Nuclear Generating station considered the most Serious Nuclear power accident in the history of the u. S. For the next 90 minutes, well look back at the events that occurred. Eric epstein is joining us live. Hes the chair of the three mile island alert which is what . Three mile island aslert a safe energy organization. We were founded in 19
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Community are not for our security but the security of the Business Owners in the community and also to see that the status quo is kept intact. Sunday afternoon about 4 30 eastern archeologist dean snow on his findings while exca the revolutionary war battlefield saratoga in new york and the inspiration to his book, 1777, Tipping Point at saratoga. What on earth was a little old lady doing out there . She was at the time she died about five feet tall, at least 60 years old, and she affs battle casualty at saratoga. What is going on here . And at 6 00 eastern on american artifacts the french method was to put you in a little plane with the wings cut down. Your second training flight they give you more wing and a little bit bigger engine on the thing and you would literally hop up and down the field. Then when you were ready for the big day you talked to your instructor who had been talking to you on the ground all the time and hed pat you on the shoulder and go and you get in an airplan
Community are not for our security but the security of the Business Owners in the community and also to see that the status quo is kept intact. Sunday afternoon about 4 30 eastern archeologist dean snow on his findings while exca the revolutionary war battlefield saratoga in new york and the inspiration to his book, 1777, Tipping Point at saratoga. What on earth was a little old lady doing out there . She was at the time she died about five feet tall, at least 60 years old, and she affs battle casualty at saratoga. What is going on here . And at 6 00 eastern on american artifacts the french method was to put you in a little plane with the wings cut down. Your second training flight they give you more wing and a little bit bigger engine on the thing and you would literally hop up and down the field. Then when you were ready for the big day you talked to your instructor who had been talking to you on the ground all the time and hed pat you on the shoulder and go and you get in an airplan