AP WAS THERE: Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident
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May 31, 2017
EDITOR'S NOTE: On March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, suffered a partial meltdown that instilled fear in hundreds of thousands of nearby residents and changed the way Americans viewed the technology. With the announcement Tuesday that Exelon Corp. plans to close the plant unless the state gives it some financial help, The Associated Press is republishing an April 8, 1979, story examining the day of the accident and the seven days that followed.
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THREE MILE ISLAND, Pa. (AP) — In the darkness before dawn, in the chill mists that rise fr...
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