March 28 in American History
A partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania became the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear history. No one died, and radiation release was limited, but public fear reshaped the nation's energy path — new reactor construction largely stopped for a generation. A crisis that changed a whole industry.
In 1979: the Three Mile Island accident. A partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania became the most serious accident in U.S.
A partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania became the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear history. No one died, and radiation release was limited, but public fear reshaped the nation's energy path — new reactor construction largely stopped for a generation. A crisis that changed a whole industry.
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