Three Mile Island: Near-miss nuclear disaster | Past PA | Pennsylvania history

Alarms rang in the control room at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station at 4 a.m. on March 28,1979. The cascade of events and broader panic made the nuclear plant the site of the most serious and publicized incident in the history of American commercial nuclear power. What happened on Three Mile Island? How was the incident handled and what effects did it have on nuclear power in the United States? Find out on Past PA. • Past PA | Lessons from...
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0:00 Flashing warnings
0:46 Nuclear enterprise
2:31 Pre-dawn alarms
3:26 Something truly strange
4:42 Radioactive gas
6:03 Heightened worries
7:02 Dread and evacuation
7:44 Explosive fears
8:23 Presidential visit
8:55 Aftermath & oversight
10:08 A cautionary tale
10:40 Share your comments
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[@chipmunkhunt]

Survived not being radiated on by TMI, but got radiated on by Chernobyl in 1986 while stationed in West Berln, Germany.
All the hunting camps in north central PA were full from people leaving the TMI area.

[@bradsanders407]

Well id say you survived that as well since it was nearly 40 years ago.

[@cklockwork]

You had a close call with BOTH incidents?! That’s incredible!

[@MLMguitarguy]

Always remember Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived Hiroshima just for his boss to say that's to bad I'll see you at work. He worked in Nagasaki. Survived both. Could always be worse.