A 30-Year Memory: Three Mile Island

Picture of TMI, taken May, 1984
pmPilgrim

March 28 - A nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, causes a partial meltdown.

And I was there. Just 12 miles down the Susquehanna River in York, PA. It was a time second only to the Cuban Missile Crisis. We left town.

Thirty years later I am still incredibly grateful for the safe ending of the crisis. The great mystery as I understand it is not how it happened, but why, it appears that a growing bubble that could have exploded, disappeared.

I still have a certain amount of trepidation about the further development of nuclear power.

No duh!