American Experience: Meltdown at Three Mile Island

Plot

Just days after Hollywood released The China Syndrome, a film about the possible meltdown of a nuclear power plant, life closely imitated art and a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power facility near Harrisburg, PA, suddenly overheated. Tension, panic, and fear embroiled the area for a week as scientists scrambled to prevent a nuclear meltdown. It was the worst nuclear accident in American history. More than 100,000 residents fled the area. Narrated by Liev Schreiber, American Experience: Meltdown at Three Mile Island carefully re-examines step-by-step this national disaster which still haunts many Americans, and which dealt a crippling blow to the nation's nuclear power industry. ~ Brooke Hodess, Rovi

Cast

David McCullough - Narrator; Liev Schreiber - Narrator

Credit

David Steward - Co-producer, David Steward - Editor, Margaret Drain - Executive Producer, Todd Boekelheide - Composer (Music Score), Chana Gazit - Producer, Chana Gazit - Screenwriter, Mark Samels - Senior Producer

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