338 - Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster

In late March of 1979, Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island Unit 2 nuclear reactor DID partially meltdown. But the result of that killed no one. However, the media coverage did nearly kill America's nuclear power industry. Was that reaction justified?

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