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American Experience: Season 11

11x06 Meltdown at Three Mile Island
TV-PG

  • 1999-02-23T02:00:00Z on PBS
  • 55m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
At 4:00am on March 28, 1979, a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power facility near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suddenly overheated, releasing radioactive gasses. During the ensuing tension-packed week, scientists scrambled to prevent the nightmare of a meltdown, officials rushed in to calm public fears, and thousands of residents fled to emergency shelters. Equipment failure, human error, and bad luck would conspire to create America's worst nuclear accident.
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