It was just complete insanity and stupidity to try to close a large, reliable source of clean energy,” said Gardner, who ...

Studies find no conclusive link between the TMI accident and public health. But those conclusions don’t satisfy those who live around the plant and know people who became sick and died at young ...

Wizened veterans of Central Pennsylvania’s “No Nukes” movement used the 46th anniversary of the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island to argue that the proposed restart of nuclear power ...

Tom Richards retired from his job at Three Mile Island 10 years ago, but the nuclear power plant remains ever-present, shadowing his moves on the Sunset Golf Course, where he works as a groundskeep… ...

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa., site of hte worse commerical nuclear power accident in American history, stopped producing electricity on Sept. 20, 2019.

The partial meltdown in 1979 left an indelible mark on Pennsylvania. PennLive and WITF have collaborated on stories examining the accident's impact, the efforts to save TMI and what happens if the ...

He risked his life to prevent a meltdown. Now, a hero of the TMI accident gets recognized Ron Fountain, an auxiliary reactor operator at TMI, was a hero during the March 1979 accident. But few ...

Ron Fountain was an auxiliary reactor operator at Three Mile Island when the accident occurred. His actions that day helped avert a catastrophic meltdown and now, 44 years later, he is being ...

A Penn State College of Medicine Study shows possible correlation between the 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island and thyroid cancer in surrounding counties.

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 Three Mile Island nuclear plant meltdown marks the worst nuclear disaster in United States history, but now, 45 years after the accident, the Constellation Energy Corporation plans to reopen ...

Three Mile Island accident legacy Over 35 years, and from opposite sides, DeSantis and Epstein did learn, although Epstein believes in the adage, trust but verify.