It was a typical Wednesday morning in south-central Pennsylvania.\u00a0 The largely working-class community of Middletown, PA was preparing for the day when the news broke at 9:00 am.\u00a0 One of the reactors at the nearby Three Mile Island nuclear power plant had malfunctioned.<\/p>\n
The 1979 episode claimed no casualties \u2013 the reactor core\u2019s partial meltdown was contained, with cleanup concluding in 1993 \u2013 but the effects of the nuclear crisis lasted far beyond that Wednesday morning.\u00a0 The event prompted extensive government action, and its imprint on the American culture in years following was felt acutely.\u00a0 For a disaster that proved physically harmless, the changes it wrought in the country were deeply felt.\u00a0 Read on for more about what happened, and how America responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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