Meltdown at Three Mile Island
MovieTitle | Meltdown at Three Mile Island |
User score | 5 |
Release date | Feb 22, 1999 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Margaret Drain , David Steward , Chana Gazit |
Production country | US |
Production companies | PBS American Experience, Steward/Gazit Productions |
Run time | 60 min. |
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.