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Three Mile Island, the shuttered Pennsylvania nuclear power plant that was the site of a 1979 reactor accident that remains the worst commercial nuclear power plant accident in U.S. history, is ...

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It has been 39 years since a meltdown at Three Mile Island became the most significant nuclear accident in U.S. history. On March 28, 1979, one of the reactors at that power plant partially melted ...

In 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, located just outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, experienced a meltdown. This was the worst nuclear accident in the history of the United States.

While most people were still asleep just before 4 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 1979, a malfunctioning valve set off what would become “the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has long stood by its determination that the amount of radiation released in the 1979 Three Mile Island accident was well under acceptable levels and that no ...

Correction: May 19, 2023 — An earlier version of this story misstated Three Mile Island as the worst nuclear disaster in US history.However, it's come to our awareness that the Church Rock ...

I n 1979, a partial meltdown of a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania brought America’s nuclear fears to life. For the past five years ...

A view of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant on March 28, 1979. The Governor of Pennsylvania ordered the evacuation of the site following an accident. AFP/AFP/Getty Images ...

The company that owns the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, site of the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history, says the facility will be closed unless the state of Pennsylvania decides to bail it out.