Meltdown at Three Mile Island

Release Date: 1999-02-22

Runtime: 60

Languages: English

Rating: 5

Votes: 1

Genres: Documentary

Director: Margaret Drain

Description: 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 bal...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.Read More

Production Companies:

PBS American Experience

Steward/Gazit Productions