TMI

TMI I chose to write my paper on an article about the near meltdown of a nuclear facility near my home, Three Mile Island. It was about 22 years ago, on March 28, 1979, in Middletown, Pennsylvania, when TMI almost had the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the history of the United States. Uranium was melting in the reactor, and hydrogen gas was exploding around the facility. No one knew whether to evacuate people in nearby towns, …

…that escaped to cause deaths or cancers. But neither really knows how much radiation was released into the atmosphere. When all this was taking place, I was in utero, and my parents have told me stories about it. They really didn’t know what they should do, but they were about 20 miles from the plant and just stayed put. But they had plans made of where they would be heading if anything serious did happen.