American Experience
Season 11 Episode 6 - Meltdown at Three Mile Island
6.6 ?
1988
Documentary
At 4:00am on March 28, 1979, a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power facility near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suddenly overheated, releasing radioactive gasses. During the ensuing tension-packed week, scientists scrambled to prevent the nightmare of a meltdown, officials rushed in to calm public fears, and thousands of residents fled to emergency shelters. Equipment failure, human error, and bad luck would conspire to create America's worst nuclear accident.
Episodes in Season 11
1
America 1900
55 min
2
Race for the Superbomb
55 min
3
Hoover Dam
55 min
4
Alone on the Ice
55 min
5
Rescue at Sea
55 min
6
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
55 min
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7
Lost in the Grand Canyon
55 min
8
MacArthur (1): Destiny
55 min
9
MacArthur (2): The Politics of War
55 min
10
Fly Girls
55 min
