[Advertisement] Jim Lounsbury: A simple mechanical accident at 4:00 in the morning last March at Three Mile Island touched off the worst accident in the history of American nuclear power.

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On April 1, Thornburgh accompanied President Jimmy Carter on a tour of Three Mile Island. The outcome of the accident was still uncertain, but Thornburgh and Carter knew that their appearance ...

The Unit 1 reactor on Three Mile Island, which closed in 2019, is adjacent to the Unit 2 reactor that experienced a major nuclear power accident in 1979 A newly-announced Microsoft deal would ...

Constellation Energy plans to restart Three Mile Island's Unit 1 in 2028 through ... walking distance of the site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. The Unit 2 reactor suffered a ...

The national and international media had given the accident at Three Mile Island front page attention for days and venerable network newsman Walter Cronkite was speaking of a "horror" that "could ...