Of reactor 2 in pennsylvania that occurred 40 years ago. The incident rated a five on the 7 Point International Nuclear Event scale. As the story unfolded heres how ed bradley of cbs news covered it. This is not an community that scares easily. Major floods and hurricane agnes have come here and the town survived. But they lived in fear of an enemy they couldnt see, hear or feel. From cbs news. Of course, that fear was radiation following the partial meltdown at tmi, the generating station considered the most Serious Nuclear power accident in the history of the u. S. And for the next 90 minutes well look back at the events that occurred. Erik epstein is the chair of the threemile island alert, which is what . Its a safe Energy Organization founded in 1977, two years before the accident at three mile island. We monitor areas. Three Nuclear Power plants on the river. You were there 40 years ago. What do you remember both when the news first broke and as the story continued to unfold in t