And government officials and a breakdown atomic power plant in pennsylvania today is probably the worst Nuclear Reactor accident today. There was no apparent serious contamination of workers. And Nuclear Safety group said that radiation inside the plant is it eight times the deadly level, so strong that after passing through a three put thick concrete wall, it can be measured awhile away. We report from harrisburg the accident occurred here at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant a dozen miles south of harrisburg. At about 4 00 this morning two water pumps that helped cool reactor number two shut down. Officials say some 50 to 60,000 gallons of radioactive water escaped into the reactor building and that the radioactivity penetrated the plants walls. Steam escaped into the atmosphere and radiation was detected as far as a mile away. At least 50 workers and perhaps twice that number were at the plant when the accident occurred. A spokesman admitted that some were exposed to radioac
Eight times the deadly level. So strong that after passing through a three foot thick concrete wall it can be measured a while away. Gary shepherd reports from harrisburg. The accident occurred here at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant a dozen miles south of harrisburg. At 4 00 this morning, two water pumps that helped cool reactor number two shut down. Officials say some 50,000 to 60,000 gallons of water escaped into the reactor building and that the radioactivity penetrated the plant walls. Steam escaped into the atmosphere and radiation was detected as far as as a mile away. At least 50 workers and perhaps twice that number were at the plant when the accident occurred. A spokesman admitted some were exposed to radioactivity and may have been contaminated. But he claimed no one was injured. All workers were given extensive checkwi checks as they left the plant. This is what reactor 2s control room looked like last september. It went into commercial Service Three months ago. C
2, at the facility in dolphin county, pooh. It occurred 40 years ago. The incident rated a 5 on the 7 Point International Nuclear Event scale. Heres how ed bradley of cbs news covered it. This time no evacuation. Please stay inside. Middletown at this time is evacuation. Please stay indoors with your windows closed. This is not a community that scares easily. Major floods and hurricane agnes have come here and the town has survived. But for almost a week last month, the people of middletown, pennsylvania, lived in fear of an enemy they couldnt see, hear, or feel. Cbs news, of course that fear was radiation following the partial meltdown at tmi, the Nuclear Generating station considered the most Serious Nuclear power accident in the history of the u. S. For the next 90 minutes, well look back at the events that occurred. Eric epstein is joining us live. Hes the chair of the three mile island alert which is what . Three mile island aslert a safe energy organization. We were founded in 19
Because somehow the rule of law doesnt uphold to him we believe this News Conference to go live to the Us State Department for a joint News Conference mike pompeo and the Russian Foreign minister, surrogate laptop. Live coverage on cspan2. Good afternoon, welcome. Welcome surrogate. Before i recap the meeting that i had with foreign minister laptop and his team, i want to note that recently the trumpet ministration has taken action for human rights violators, i mentioned in my International Human rights speech which we celebrate today and these actions extend from the ministration commitment old individuals accountable for gross human rights is abuses. Ill speak more about that tomorrow area now turning to our meeting. Last may at President Trumps request i made a trip to russia to meet with president putin. The reason was pretty straightforward. We should have a better relationship. The United States andrussia than we had the last few years and weve been working on that. Our bilateral
As far as we know at this hour, no worse than that. A Government Official said that a breakdown in an atomic power plant in pennsylvania today is probably the worst Nuclear Reactor accident to date. There was no apparent serious con ttamination of workers, but safety group said radiation inside the plant is at eight times the deadly level. So strong, after passing through a 3foot thick concrete wall, it can be measured a mile away. Gary shepherd reports from harrisburg. Reporter the accident occurred here at the three Mile Island Nuclear power atlanta a dozen miles south of harrisburg. About 4 00 this morning, two water pumps that help cool reactor number two shut down. Officials say some 50 to 60,000 gallons of radioactive water escaped into the reactor building. And that the radioactivitity y y penetrated the walls. Steam escaped into the atmosphere, and radiation was detected as far as a mile away. At least 50 workers and perhaps twice that number were at the plant when the accident