Meltdown at Three Mile Island(1999)

movie - first aired/released 1999-02-22 - 60 min - audience 6.5

Documentary

Directed by Chana Gazit, David Steward, Margaret Drain

In the predawn hours of March 28, 1979, a reactor of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, began to overheat. The lives of half a million people soon hung in the balance, as human error and mechanical failure combined to create the worst nuclear accident in American history.