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. From cbs news and of course that fear was radiation following the partial meltdown at tmi 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 alert is a safe energy organization. We were founded in 1977, two years before the accident at three mile island. Were a Nuclear Watch dog group that monitors three Nuclear Power plants on the susquehanna river. You were there march 28, 1979. What do you remember when the news first broke and as the story continued to unfold in the
Evacuations. At this time, there is no immediate evacuation. Please stay indoors with your windows closed. Reporter this is not a community that scares easily. Major floods and hurricane agnus have come here, and the town survived. Almost a week last month, the people of middletown, pennsylvania, lived in fear of an enemy they couldnt see, hear, or feel. That from cbs news. Of course, the 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. He is the chair of the three mile island alert, which is what . Three mile island alert is a safe Energy Organization founded in 1977, two years before the accident at three mile island. Were a Nuclear Watchdog group that monitored a 3mile island, three power plants on the river. You were there 40 years ago, march 28th, 1979. What do y
1708 to have their toes cut off. Explore our nations past on American History tv every weekend on cspan 3. March 28th, 1979, the events just out of harrisburg, pennsylvania. We look back at the three mile island accident, which was the partial meltdown of a reactor, reactor number two at the facility in dopennsylvania. The incident rated a 5 on the 7point International Nuclear event scale. Heres how ed bradley of cbs news covered it. Reporter this is not a community that scares easily. Major floods and hurricane agnus have come here, and the town survived. Almost a week last month, the people of middletown, pennsylvania, lived in fear of an enemy they couldnt see, hear, or feel. That from cbs news. Of course, the 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. He is