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Netflix’s ‘Meltdown: Three Mile Island’ tells the history of the infamous nuclear plant accident. Here’s how we covered it.

“We’re talking about a story where there’s a possibility here of the East Coast being contaminated with radiation,” said producer Carla Shamberg.

Pennsylvania State Troopers maintain a guard post outside the closed front gate of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg in 1979.  The incident at Three Mile Island was the first accidental release of radiation at a commercial nuclear power plant in America. A new Netflix documentary examines the partial meltdown.
Pennsylvania State Troopers maintain a guard post outside the closed front gate of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg in 1979. The incident at Three Mile Island was the first accidental release of radiation at a commercial nuclear power plant in America. A new Netflix documentary examines the partial meltdown.Read more