Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131015:04:02:00
Carter was on the scene wearing funny booties and touring the plant and trying to show that the situation was being brought under control. ultimately, the cleanup at three mile island took nearly 15 years and $1 billion, but the scariest thing about that accident right when it happened was that nobody really knew how bad it was or how bad it was going to get or what it even meant in terms of dangerousness to have a large-scale nuclear accident in this country. so, that nuclear meltdown happened, the three mile island crisis started at the very end of march 1979. what was going on in washington...