Today marks the day when, in 1979, Three Mile Island Nuclear facility in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, began having problems coming down to cooling temperatures in Reactor Unit 2, causing a slight meltdown the next morning which would release small amounts of radiation. This accident would cause questions on the true safety of nuclear energy. Some that have yet to be answered still today.

This accident has caused a slow down on the use of nuclear power. Though the damage was kept at Read More >>