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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 ...

Yard is there, the waste is here. Where is it going to go . Erik epstein is joining us from pennsylvania. The chair of the three mile island alert. Thank you for being with us on cspan television and American History tv. It was a first step in a nuclear nightmare. As far as we know at this hour, no worse than that. The Government Official said a breakdown in an atomic power plant in pennsylvania is probably the worst Nuclear Reactor accident to date. There was no apparent serious con tam administration of workers. A group said radiation inside the plant is at eight times the deadly level. So s...

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...

Contamination of workers, but a 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 Plant 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 radioactivity penetrated the plants walls. ...

The accident occurred here at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant a dozen miles south of harrisburg. At about 4 am two water pumps that cooled reactor number two shut down. Officials say 50 to 60,000 gallons of radioactive water escaped into the reactor and that the radioactivity penetrated the walls. Steam escaped into the atmosphere and radiation was detected as far as one mile away. At least 50 workers and perhaps twice that number were at the plant when the accident occurred. A spokesman admitted that someone explode to radioactivity and may been contaminated, but he claimed no one w...