Fooling with Disaster? (Startling Revelations About Three Mile Island) (Nuclear Accident‪)‬

It was April Fool's Day, 1979--30 years ago--when Randall Thompson first set foot inside the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, PA. Just four days earlier, in the early morning hours of March 28, a relatively minor problem in the plant's Unit 2 reactor sparked a series of mishaps that led to the meltdown of almost half the uranium fuel and uncontrolled releases of radiation into the air and surrounding Susquehanna River. It was the single worst disaster ever to befall the US nuclear power industry, and Thompson was hired as a health physics technician to go inside the plant and find out how dangerous the situation was. He spent 28 days monitoring radiation releases.