Meltdown at Three Mile Island (1999)

• 73%
• 1999
• Documentary
• Margaret Drain
• Chana Gazit
• David Steward

In the predawn hours of March 28, 1979, a reactor of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, began to overheat. The lives of half a million people soon hung in the balance, as human error and mechanical failure combined to create the worst nuclear accident in American history.