In the late 1970 s. The world was in turmoil never before had so many people taken to the streets millions of demonstrators demanded more democracy grace of freedom higher wages and world peace. And across the globe women were calling for equal rights. For all these hopes seemed to take a back seat in a world shackled to the ongoing confrontation between the United States and the soviet union. There appeared to be little alternative to the 2 political blocs the cold war has the world firmly in its grip. Place was still feeling the effects of the oil crisis of the ne 970. 00 s. Economic growth had snowed and unemployment was steadily rising. The post will do comes when it. Caught my. Eye was done shopping trip to the United States clearly marked the beginning of the chinese imbalance with the west the best between the 2 coming to spell is of china and the soviet union was now definite. The extensive deployments of somebody a troops along chinas board is were no longer a source of concer
The key to hook ever, as must think, about the brown stream to meet lake erie, and industrial waterway, its banks populated by steel mills and factories. Filled with ships. The cuyahoga river, as it reaches lake erie, after a 100mile twisting under turning journey from its head waters is an exhausted stream, abused and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, the sprawling megalopolis of cleveland, akron, would not exist. The river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the western reserve in the 1780s. The river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio and so man came and continued coming. Until today, nearly two Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a navigable stream, a water supply and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere. Is this mark an epitaph for the cuyahoga river, the Crooked R
And government officials and a breakdown atomic power plant in pennsylvania today is probably the worst Nuclear Reactor accident today. There was no apparent serious contamination of workers. And Nuclear Safety group said that radiation inside the plant is it eight times the deadly level, so strong that after passing through a three put thick concrete wall, it can be measured awhile away. We report from harrisburg the accident occurred here at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant a dozen miles south of harrisburg. At about 4 00 this morning two water pumps that helped cool reactor number two shut down. Officials say some 50 to 60,000 gallons of radioactive water escaped into the reactor building and that the radioactivity penetrated the plants walls. Steam escaped into the atmosphere and radiation was detected as far as a mile away. At least 50 workers and perhaps twice that number were at the plant when the accident occurred. A spokesman admitted that some were exposed to radioac
It announces that ath this time there is an 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. That is from cbs news. The fear is radiation following the meltdown at the Nuclear Generating station. Consider the most Serious Nuclear power accident in the history of the u. S. For the next 90 minutes we will look back at the events that occurred. Eric epstein joins us live. He is the chair of the three mile island alert, which is what . It is a safe energy organization. We were founded in 1977, two years before the accident at three mile island. We are a nuclea Watchdog Group that monitors the three Nuclear Power plants on the susquehanna river. You were there, what do you remember both when the news first broke and as the story conti
Reactor accident to date. There was no apparent serious contamination of workers but a Nuclear Safety group said that radiation inside the plant is at eight times the deadly level, so strong that after passing through a threefoot thick concrete wall it can be measured a mile away. The accident occurred here at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant a dozen miles south of harrisburg. At about 4 00 this morning two water pumps that helped cool reactor number two shut down. Officials say some 50 to 60,000 gallons of radioactive water escaped into the reactor building and that the radioactivity penetrated the plants wall. Steam escaped into the atmosphere and radiation was detected as far as a mile away. At least 50 workers and perhaps twice that number were at the plant when the accident occurred. A spokesman admitted that some were exposed to radioactivity and may have been contaminated but he claimed no one was injured. All workers were given extensive checks with giger counters as t