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Meltdown: A Race Against Nuclear Disaster at Three Mile Island: A Reporter's Story
This riveting eyewitness report—including dramatic photos—takes readers right to the scene of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.
March 28, 1979: It was 4 a.m. at the nuclear power plant on an island in
the middle of the Susquehanna River. Suddenly, an alarm shrieked. Something was wrong inside the plant. Within minutes, human error and technical failure triggered the worst nuclear power accident in the United States, and, within hours, the eyes of the world would be on Three Mile Island. Thirty-four years after the bombing of Hiroshima, the crisis at Three Mile Island re-awoke the world to the dangers of nuclear power, and now, in MELTDOWN, Wilborn Hampton tells the hour-by-hour story of covering the accident as a U.P.I. reporter. His riveting eyewitness account will compel readers to consider one of the most serious questions facing humankind: where can we find affordable, sustainable energy, and at what risk?
March 28, 1979: It was 4 a.m. at the nuclear power plant on an island in
the middle of the Susquehanna River. Suddenly, an alarm shrieked. Something was wrong inside the plant. Within minutes, human error and technical failure triggered the worst nuclear power accident in the United States, and, within hours, the eyes of the world would be on Three Mile Island. Thirty-four years after the bombing of Hiroshima, the crisis at Three Mile Island re-awoke the world to the dangers of nuclear power, and now, in MELTDOWN, Wilborn Hampton tells the hour-by-hour story of covering the accident as a U.P.I. reporter. His riveting eyewitness account will compel readers to consider one of the most serious questions facing humankind: where can we find affordable, sustainable energy, and at what risk?
112 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2001
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Wilborn Hampton
9 books4 followersWILBORN HAMPTON is the author of four books of nonfiction and one biography for Young Adults. In four decades as a reporter and editor for United Press International and The New York Times he helped cover some of the major news stories of the time. Now a full-time writer, he lives in New York.
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February 25, 2019
10 July 2002 MELTDOWN: A RACE AGAINST NUCLEAR DISASTER AT THREE MILE ISLAND by Wilborn Hampton, Candlewick Press, October 2001
God bless my public library. I'm curled up in front of my computer at 6:30 A.M., marshaling my thoughts about nuclear power--a topic which monopolized my life for several years during the late 1970s--and I'm wondering how I can locate a copy of Amory Lovins' seminal essay on energy in the October 1976 issue of Foreign Affairs. Turns out it takes just five little key-steps from my library's homepage (http://www.sonoma.lib.ca.us/), and I am able to view a pdf file of the 32 page article! I utilized that article, "Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken," back then as the foundation to my own argument--that the electricity from the twin nuclear power plants, then proposed for eastern Long Island, was unnecessary.
If our years of protests and legal intervention hadn't already killed plans for constructing those twin nuclear plants, they were officially pronounced dead after the nation spent a scary few days awaiting the outcome of events in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
MELTDOWN: A RACE AGAINST NUCLEAR DISASTER AT THREE MILE ISLAND, by Wilborn Hampton, is a great introduction for young adults about what it's like to be a journalist. More importantly, it's a chronicle by a journalist on the scene of the events at Three Mile Island in the spring of 1979, where we got lucky--a catastrophe that would far outweigh that of 9-11 was narrowly averted. A full understanding of the extent of that potential disaster can only be grasped when viewed in relation to the 1986 nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, which is the subject of MELTDOWN's final chapter:
"There is no official death toll for Chernobyl. At the time, the Soviet government reported that 31 people died in the accident. But since the breakup of the Soviet Union, more honest assessments of the extent of the tragedy have come out. The Ukraine, which is now an independent nation, has aid that more than 4,300 people died there. Nearly all the firemen who battled the blaze that first night are now dead, most from cancer or other radiation-related illnesses...Deaths among the soldiers and workers who built the concrete shell around the [damaged and contaminated] reactor are estimated to number at least 6,000...
"The land around the Chernobyl plant is a wasteland. Ukrainian officials say that 160,000 square kilometers [approximately 62,000 square miles] were contaminated with radioactive fallout at a level forty times greater than the level of radiation that Hiroshima or Nagasaki received from the first atomic bombs...Pripyat is now a ghost town...Bulldozers have buried most of the houses, and the old apartment blocks are deserted, the possessions of the former inhabitants too radioactive to reclaim...
"In Gomel, a town about sixty miles north of Chernobyl that received perhaps the heaviest concentration of radioactive fallout, the local orphanage is full of infants and young children as a result of what has become an epidemic of birth defects now being born to women who received large doses of radiation."
A young adult reading such awful facts and considering the root causes of why such potentially catastrophic technology is "necessary" may well be a young adult who, at the very least, decides to turn off their light the next time they leave the room.
Furthermore, MELTDOWN provides a comprehensible introduction to nuclear power for the young adults who are growing up facing the world's aging inventory of nuclear power plants--and the ever-increasing quantities of highly radioactive nuclear waste from those power plants (which has been a hot topic just this past week).
Common sense dictates that many of these plants will need to be abandoned in the not-so-distant future. Face it: it's one thing for me to keep my 1980 Datsun station wagon on the road, but I can afford to have something break down on it. (Actually that thought makes me a bit nervous.) We expect someone to be watching out for us when it comes to such things as geriatric commercial airliners. But who is going to going to make the decisions regarding the antiquated nuclear plants that currently produce such a significant portion of our nation's electric supply? MELTDOWN gives young adults a head start on considering this dilemma.
Its readability and the significance of the subject matter, combined with a fine glossary and a list of recommended resources, make MELTDOWN: A RACE AGAINST NUCLEAR DISASTER AT THREE MILE ISLAND a must-have. It provides today's young adults an opportunity for examining a pivotal episode from our energy past and an incentive for contemplating their energy future.
Richie Partington, MLIS
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https://www.facebook.com/richiespicks/
richiepartington@gmail.com
God bless my public library. I'm curled up in front of my computer at 6:30 A.M., marshaling my thoughts about nuclear power--a topic which monopolized my life for several years during the late 1970s--and I'm wondering how I can locate a copy of Amory Lovins' seminal essay on energy in the October 1976 issue of Foreign Affairs. Turns out it takes just five little key-steps from my library's homepage (http://www.sonoma.lib.ca.us/), and I am able to view a pdf file of the 32 page article! I utilized that article, "Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken," back then as the foundation to my own argument--that the electricity from the twin nuclear power plants, then proposed for eastern Long Island, was unnecessary.
If our years of protests and legal intervention hadn't already killed plans for constructing those twin nuclear plants, they were officially pronounced dead after the nation spent a scary few days awaiting the outcome of events in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
MELTDOWN: A RACE AGAINST NUCLEAR DISASTER AT THREE MILE ISLAND, by Wilborn Hampton, is a great introduction for young adults about what it's like to be a journalist. More importantly, it's a chronicle by a journalist on the scene of the events at Three Mile Island in the spring of 1979, where we got lucky--a catastrophe that would far outweigh that of 9-11 was narrowly averted. A full understanding of the extent of that potential disaster can only be grasped when viewed in relation to the 1986 nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, which is the subject of MELTDOWN's final chapter:
"There is no official death toll for Chernobyl. At the time, the Soviet government reported that 31 people died in the accident. But since the breakup of the Soviet Union, more honest assessments of the extent of the tragedy have come out. The Ukraine, which is now an independent nation, has aid that more than 4,300 people died there. Nearly all the firemen who battled the blaze that first night are now dead, most from cancer or other radiation-related illnesses...Deaths among the soldiers and workers who built the concrete shell around the [damaged and contaminated] reactor are estimated to number at least 6,000...
"The land around the Chernobyl plant is a wasteland. Ukrainian officials say that 160,000 square kilometers [approximately 62,000 square miles] were contaminated with radioactive fallout at a level forty times greater than the level of radiation that Hiroshima or Nagasaki received from the first atomic bombs...Pripyat is now a ghost town...Bulldozers have buried most of the houses, and the old apartment blocks are deserted, the possessions of the former inhabitants too radioactive to reclaim...
"In Gomel, a town about sixty miles north of Chernobyl that received perhaps the heaviest concentration of radioactive fallout, the local orphanage is full of infants and young children as a result of what has become an epidemic of birth defects now being born to women who received large doses of radiation."
A young adult reading such awful facts and considering the root causes of why such potentially catastrophic technology is "necessary" may well be a young adult who, at the very least, decides to turn off their light the next time they leave the room.
Furthermore, MELTDOWN provides a comprehensible introduction to nuclear power for the young adults who are growing up facing the world's aging inventory of nuclear power plants--and the ever-increasing quantities of highly radioactive nuclear waste from those power plants (which has been a hot topic just this past week).
Common sense dictates that many of these plants will need to be abandoned in the not-so-distant future. Face it: it's one thing for me to keep my 1980 Datsun station wagon on the road, but I can afford to have something break down on it. (Actually that thought makes me a bit nervous.) We expect someone to be watching out for us when it comes to such things as geriatric commercial airliners. But who is going to going to make the decisions regarding the antiquated nuclear plants that currently produce such a significant portion of our nation's electric supply? MELTDOWN gives young adults a head start on considering this dilemma.
Its readability and the significance of the subject matter, combined with a fine glossary and a list of recommended resources, make MELTDOWN: A RACE AGAINST NUCLEAR DISASTER AT THREE MILE ISLAND a must-have. It provides today's young adults an opportunity for examining a pivotal episode from our energy past and an incentive for contemplating their energy future.
Richie Partington, MLIS
Richie's Picks http://richiespicks.pbworks.com
https://www.facebook.com/richiespicks/
richiepartington@gmail.com
January 13, 2021
Book 30 of Nuclear Studies:
A short timecapsule told by the UPI reporter sent to cover the event.
I appreciated the context of Hiroshima and Chernobyl book-ending the retelling, but I also appreciated the author's attempt at being as non-biased as possible. This is one of the few specific books I've read so far on this quest that actually stated that a nuclear accident would NOT be as severe as a nuclear bomb going off. This has always been one of my methods of testing an author's bias and chops and Mr. Hampton surely passed that one.
One of the things that I thought about while reading this, especially in the current 2020/2021 political context, is how rare and how necessary good public administration is. In a crisis, people need someone direct to listen to and as few competing opinions as possible; otherwise, a crisis turns into all people for themselves. A funny detail I noticed in this retelling was that people were emptying local grocery stores to take food with them when they evacuated...as if they weren't in the U.S. with plenty of grocery stores in the locations they were likely evacuating to. People act so irrationally in the face of crisis and this is where good public administration can help.
However, good public administration alone is not enough to help in a crisis. We also need systems of transparency and accountability. Without these things, distrust foments easily. I hope that we can continue to uphold leaders who strive to meet all three of these points as much as is feasible. Let me also add that people are going to fail inevitably, no matter how good they are. Just because someone fails does not make them bad at these things, nor does it automatically make them a hypocrite. If they apologize and strive by their actions to do better, then those are truly the best of us. If not, let us shun them, for they have none of our best interests in mind.
Lastly, I was pleased with Mr. Hampton's refusal to support or condemn nuclear power. I have reached a point on my own journey with nuclear studies where I truly do believe nuclear power as it is now is not sustainable. HOWEVER, banning it is not the answer. Our best bet is to treat our current nuclear facilities as transitional while we await the development of the next gen reactor technology where we will have smaller, safer, more effective, and less dirty reactors. We need to do our part to make sure that transitional technology is supported and that research funding is granted to promising new technologies that will revolutionize this (nearly) century-old industry. Let's do it.
A short timecapsule told by the UPI reporter sent to cover the event.
I appreciated the context of Hiroshima and Chernobyl book-ending the retelling, but I also appreciated the author's attempt at being as non-biased as possible. This is one of the few specific books I've read so far on this quest that actually stated that a nuclear accident would NOT be as severe as a nuclear bomb going off. This has always been one of my methods of testing an author's bias and chops and Mr. Hampton surely passed that one.
One of the things that I thought about while reading this, especially in the current 2020/2021 political context, is how rare and how necessary good public administration is. In a crisis, people need someone direct to listen to and as few competing opinions as possible; otherwise, a crisis turns into all people for themselves. A funny detail I noticed in this retelling was that people were emptying local grocery stores to take food with them when they evacuated...as if they weren't in the U.S. with plenty of grocery stores in the locations they were likely evacuating to. People act so irrationally in the face of crisis and this is where good public administration can help.
However, good public administration alone is not enough to help in a crisis. We also need systems of transparency and accountability. Without these things, distrust foments easily. I hope that we can continue to uphold leaders who strive to meet all three of these points as much as is feasible. Let me also add that people are going to fail inevitably, no matter how good they are. Just because someone fails does not make them bad at these things, nor does it automatically make them a hypocrite. If they apologize and strive by their actions to do better, then those are truly the best of us. If not, let us shun them, for they have none of our best interests in mind.
Lastly, I was pleased with Mr. Hampton's refusal to support or condemn nuclear power. I have reached a point on my own journey with nuclear studies where I truly do believe nuclear power as it is now is not sustainable. HOWEVER, banning it is not the answer. Our best bet is to treat our current nuclear facilities as transitional while we await the development of the next gen reactor technology where we will have smaller, safer, more effective, and less dirty reactors. We need to do our part to make sure that transitional technology is supported and that research funding is granted to promising new technologies that will revolutionize this (nearly) century-old industry. Let's do it.
December 15, 2018
The book that I have read is Meltdown: A Race Against Nuclear Disaster At Three Mile Island. This book is a reporters story written by Wilborn Hampton. The author of this book, Wilborn Hampton used to be a journalist and reporter. He worked with the United Press International as well as also working for the New York Times. He has covered and wrote about many things in the United States. The first book that he ever wrote was titled The World Mourns. The book The World Mourns was about him covering assassination of former president John Kennedy as a reporter. The majority of the books that he wrote are form his perspective as a reporter that was covering the major events that happened the book.
The book Meltdown: A Race Against Nuclear Disaster At Three Mile Island is another one of his books that is told from primarily his perspective as he covers the major events. At the start of the book Wilborn Hampton talks about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the second world war. He mentioned how this opened the worlds eyes to what nuclear energy could do. Electronic devices were becoming used all throughout the United States and many people thought that nuclear energy could be used as a more efficient way to power the new electronic devices that were becoming used more often. There were many people that were not in favor of this idea at all because of what nuclear bombs could do.
Many peoples fears about nuclear energy were confirmed when parts of a nuclear plant in Three Mile Island stopped working and started to malfunction. When this happen large amounts of radiation was released into the nearby areas. Many towns evacuated after this happened. Multiple things were going wrong at the plant and it was at a high risk of exploding. Eventually the many people that were working on the plant were able to stop in before it exploded. Overall I think this is a really good book that recorded events that actually happened. I would recommend it to anyone that is interested.
The book Meltdown: A Race Against Nuclear Disaster At Three Mile Island is another one of his books that is told from primarily his perspective as he covers the major events. At the start of the book Wilborn Hampton talks about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the second world war. He mentioned how this opened the worlds eyes to what nuclear energy could do. Electronic devices were becoming used all throughout the United States and many people thought that nuclear energy could be used as a more efficient way to power the new electronic devices that were becoming used more often. There were many people that were not in favor of this idea at all because of what nuclear bombs could do.
Many peoples fears about nuclear energy were confirmed when parts of a nuclear plant in Three Mile Island stopped working and started to malfunction. When this happen large amounts of radiation was released into the nearby areas. Many towns evacuated after this happened. Multiple things were going wrong at the plant and it was at a high risk of exploding. Eventually the many people that were working on the plant were able to stop in before it exploded. Overall I think this is a really good book that recorded events that actually happened. I would recommend it to anyone that is interested.
August 22, 2021
This is very short but powerful book. I was old enough to have known some facts about this event but I do not remember them.
The book tells what happened, had pictures to help explain better. Very interesting and very scary. The families at that time must have been in such turmoil what to do. Very good read.
The book tells what happened, had pictures to help explain better. Very interesting and very scary. The families at that time must have been in such turmoil what to do. Very good read.
December 8, 2017
One reporter's brief description of what it was like to cover the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1969. Was decent at describing his own view of events as they unfolded but bot much else.
July 15, 2021
Middle school book. Very interesting, well written, and an easy read.
January 2, 2015
In Meltdown, Wilbornn Hampton, a United Press International reporter, details his experience covering the story of the potential nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island.
The book begins with an overview of Hiroshima. In particular, the terrible aftereffects the nuclear bomb had. It not only killed 100,000 people instantly. Thousands of people developed cancer and radiation sickness. Years after mothers gave birth to deformed babies. The water was polluted and no food could be grown because of radiation in the soil. The effects of nuclear fallout exist for generations to come.
Hampton tells of the call he received on March 30, 1979. The initial incident had actually occurred on March 28, but things had been kept pretty quiet. As the situation worsened, news got out and reporters like Hampton started arriving on the scene.
Hampton details the chain of events that lead to the potential disaster. The book includes diagrams to help illustrate the layout of the nuclear reactors and how the system of pressurized water worked to keep the reactors cool and functioning. The book also contains many primary documents, including images of Three Mile Island and the surrounding area, and newspaper clippings.
I don't think I completely understood the science of the nuclear reactors despite the diagrams and illustrations, but Hampton tells a good story that I was fully engaged in. Honestly, not a whole lot happened! There was a lot of waiting around, a lot of conflicting reports about how dangerous the situation really was and how long they had before a potential meltdown. Hampton was able to tell an exciting story regardless.
The book ends with a brief look at Chernobyl, which was not as lucky. There, a meltdown occurred with terrible short and long-term consequences.
At no point does Hampton give his opinion on whether nuclear power is a good or bad thing. After a book full of all the terrible things that could happen, he finishes with mentioning that nuclear power still has many supporters and how it's today's youth who will need to figure out the best form on new electricity.
The book begins with an overview of Hiroshima. In particular, the terrible aftereffects the nuclear bomb had. It not only killed 100,000 people instantly. Thousands of people developed cancer and radiation sickness. Years after mothers gave birth to deformed babies. The water was polluted and no food could be grown because of radiation in the soil. The effects of nuclear fallout exist for generations to come.
Hampton tells of the call he received on March 30, 1979. The initial incident had actually occurred on March 28, but things had been kept pretty quiet. As the situation worsened, news got out and reporters like Hampton started arriving on the scene.
Hampton details the chain of events that lead to the potential disaster. The book includes diagrams to help illustrate the layout of the nuclear reactors and how the system of pressurized water worked to keep the reactors cool and functioning. The book also contains many primary documents, including images of Three Mile Island and the surrounding area, and newspaper clippings.
I don't think I completely understood the science of the nuclear reactors despite the diagrams and illustrations, but Hampton tells a good story that I was fully engaged in. Honestly, not a whole lot happened! There was a lot of waiting around, a lot of conflicting reports about how dangerous the situation really was and how long they had before a potential meltdown. Hampton was able to tell an exciting story regardless.
The book ends with a brief look at Chernobyl, which was not as lucky. There, a meltdown occurred with terrible short and long-term consequences.
At no point does Hampton give his opinion on whether nuclear power is a good or bad thing. After a book full of all the terrible things that could happen, he finishes with mentioning that nuclear power still has many supporters and how it's today's youth who will need to figure out the best form on new electricity.
November 19, 2015
Meltdown: A race against disaster at Three Mile Island is a fantastic book from the point of view of a reporter during the meltdown crisis at Three Mile Island. You follow Wilborn Hampton through the crisis as he tries to tell everybody the events of Three Mile Island and get a good article about it as well. I’ve never heard about Hampton mostly because he is more of a reporter than a author but he definitely has potential with this fun tense ride he brings us along.
Hampton soon realizes the situation as whole towns were abandoned, with only a forgotten dog or the sneaky rats below to stay and occupy the town. As the situation gets worse and gets more out of control, Hampton has to make a decision. Stay and get the best story of his life and possibly die from the meltdown or flee as fast as he can. Bravery and encouraging words from his friends and fellow reporters drive him in the plant as he gets the story he always wished for.
Meltdown is a very interesting novel to say the least. From one look at it you would think that Meltdown would be a very scientific novel maybe about nuclear material or about how nuclear energy was made and produced. You would be surprised to see that this is more a historical novel than scientific. It rarely dwells deep in scientific equipment or formulas with one or two explaining key aspects in the book and more focuses on the reporter and everyone’s reaction to it.
I would recommend the book to a friend who might be interested in either the study of nuclear energy or the historical tension of the situation at hand. It is also a relatively short read with some pictures to help the reader grasp the loneliness of the town and its fleeing population. It can sometimes get a little tricky to get a hold of the plot when more problems occur and more people are introduced so keep that in mind. Other than that it's a fun short and tense ride through a nuclear disaster and you're learning something from it.
Hampton soon realizes the situation as whole towns were abandoned, with only a forgotten dog or the sneaky rats below to stay and occupy the town. As the situation gets worse and gets more out of control, Hampton has to make a decision. Stay and get the best story of his life and possibly die from the meltdown or flee as fast as he can. Bravery and encouraging words from his friends and fellow reporters drive him in the plant as he gets the story he always wished for.
Meltdown is a very interesting novel to say the least. From one look at it you would think that Meltdown would be a very scientific novel maybe about nuclear material or about how nuclear energy was made and produced. You would be surprised to see that this is more a historical novel than scientific. It rarely dwells deep in scientific equipment or formulas with one or two explaining key aspects in the book and more focuses on the reporter and everyone’s reaction to it.
I would recommend the book to a friend who might be interested in either the study of nuclear energy or the historical tension of the situation at hand. It is also a relatively short read with some pictures to help the reader grasp the loneliness of the town and its fleeing population. It can sometimes get a little tricky to get a hold of the plot when more problems occur and more people are introduced so keep that in mind. Other than that it's a fun short and tense ride through a nuclear disaster and you're learning something from it.
March 25, 2011
Wilborn Hampton is an extraordinary writer. (formerly NYT writer, later, NYT editor)
He didn't choose this assignment in his early career, and didn't even know what it was about, but his editor wanted him to be the one to cover it. Great choice. Hamton is a very honest writer with a keen sense of judgement and a dedication to the highest values of his work.
This book does an excellent job of reawakening in us our most powerful thoughts and memories (fears and reassuances) of what it was like to grow up in 'the nuclear age' From Hiroshima and Nagasaki, through TMI and Chernobyl, we see the good and bad - uncertainty and 'unknowableness' - of nuclear energy. With an incredible list of 'stats': 100,000 people vanished in an instant in the WWII bombings but the peacetime effects of Chernobyl were 40 times greater than those.
A great read for young people but for anyone who wants to better understand the 'big picture' of nuclear energy and why we are where we are right now. Watching one thing after another, repeating itself in 2011 is informative but also, just plain chilling.
Less than a hundred pages of text, with about 50 pictures, charts graphs and maps, it is a QUICK read.
Reading Meltdown has definitely made me a fan of Wilborn Hampton. I look forward to reading his other books - and I sure hope he's writing a new one now!
He didn't choose this assignment in his early career, and didn't even know what it was about, but his editor wanted him to be the one to cover it. Great choice. Hamton is a very honest writer with a keen sense of judgement and a dedication to the highest values of his work.
This book does an excellent job of reawakening in us our most powerful thoughts and memories (fears and reassuances) of what it was like to grow up in 'the nuclear age' From Hiroshima and Nagasaki, through TMI and Chernobyl, we see the good and bad - uncertainty and 'unknowableness' - of nuclear energy. With an incredible list of 'stats': 100,000 people vanished in an instant in the WWII bombings but the peacetime effects of Chernobyl were 40 times greater than those.
A great read for young people but for anyone who wants to better understand the 'big picture' of nuclear energy and why we are where we are right now. Watching one thing after another, repeating itself in 2011 is informative but also, just plain chilling.
Less than a hundred pages of text, with about 50 pictures, charts graphs and maps, it is a QUICK read.
Reading Meltdown has definitely made me a fan of Wilborn Hampton. I look forward to reading his other books - and I sure hope he's writing a new one now!
December 12, 2009
Hey all of you people who are afraid of reading non-fiction, some real stories are actually exciting, and interesting. Although with this book, I do not agree to the message. NUCLEAR ENERGY IS OUR FUTURE!!!!!! YEAH!!!!
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April 16, 2008
A reporter tells his account of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident. Fast - paced with some black and white photos.
January 23, 2013
I wish it said more about he Chernobyl disaster but over all it was great
January 8, 2015
Great book, very informative and easy to understand.
April 30, 2017
This book was very interesting to me because I'm from the Harrisburg area and was alive (5 years old) when the disaster happened.
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