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Three Mile Island

Extra! Secrets to Being an AP Reporter for 49 Consecutive Years!

Dana Kennedy | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media

Read More: 9/11, Associated Press, U.S. Airways Flight 1549, Vietnam, Three Mile Island, Bloggers, Richard Pyle, Ann Arbor-Michigan, New York, Media News
Dana Kennedy

I'm impressed with Richard Pyle for sticking with the same company for 49 years, for having such a sharp memory, and for being the cliched Irascible, Gruff Newsman that future cub reporters will never meet.

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Walter Cronkite, 3 Mile Island & "Lamar's Folly" in the Climate Bill

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Nuclear Power, No Nukes, Networks, Solartopia, Walter Cronkite, CBS News, Three-Mile-Island-Anniversary, Nuclear-Renaissance, Atomic Disaster, Media, Fermi Nuclear Plant, Three Mile Island, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

It is critical that calls start pouring into Congress. The nation -- the world -- cannot afford more Three Mile Islands, especially now that Walter Cronkite is no longer around to report on them.

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Cracking the Corporate Media's Iron Curtain Around Death at Three Mile Island

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Radiation Releases, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Nuclear Power, Solartopia, Destruction, Toxic, Climate Change, Environment, Three-Mile-Island-Anniversary, Pollution, Harrisburg-Pennsylvania, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

But people did die at Three Mile Island. And it's the "alternative" media that now brings reality to the mainstream.

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Three Mile Island's 30th Anniversary Sees Nuclear Renaissance

AP | MARC LEVY | Posted 04.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Three Mile Island, Nuclear Power, Green Technology, Middletown-Pennsylvania, Green News

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — The nation's worst nuclear power plant accident was unfolding on Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island when an industry economist t...

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Remembering the Three Mile Island Meltdown

Daniel Kessler | Posted 04.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Greenpeace, Three Mile Island, Nuclear Power, Three MIle Island Anniversary, Green News
Daniel Kessler

Now that memories of the meltdown have faded, the nuclear industry and those in their employ are claiming that that Three Mile Island was really a success story and that the radiation was contained.

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30 Years After TMI, A Lesson For Today's Economists

Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Anti-Trust, Tmi, Pennsylvania, Nuclear Power, Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Ithaca, Federal Trade Commission, Harrisburg, China Syndrome, Three Mile Island, Harrisburg-Pennsylvania, Business News
Craig

Our new test for any enterprise, be it a financial institution, a power plant, or a war, must be, "Is it too large to be allowed to fail?" If the answer is "yes" then we cannot proceed.

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McCain vs. Nuclear Safety

Ross Tuttle | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Safety, John McCain, Mccain Nuclear Power, 2008 Election, Three Mile Island, Nuclear Power, Barack Obama, Politics News
Ross Tuttle

McCain's cavalier attitude toward nuclear safety, where he holds in contempt those who raise questions, is nothing new.

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McCain's Michigan Melt-Down Madness

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 09.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Nuclear Power, Fermi Nuke, Tire Inflation, Mccain, Obama, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

Leave it to John McCain to pick the site of a horrific atomic meltdown to symbolize his push for nuke power.

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Sierra Club RAW: Last Week's Campaign McMeltdown

Josh Dorner | Posted 09.11.2008 | Green

Read More: John Mccain Sturgis, John McCain, Enrico Fermi Generating Station, Nuclear Power, Mccain Gaffes, No Nukes Campaign, China Syndrome, Sierra Club, Move On, Three Mile Island, Nuclear Meltdown, Exxonmccain, Green News
Josh Dorner

The McCain campaign visited the Enrico Fermi nuclear generating station in Michigan -- the site of a 1966 partial meltdown that resulted in the coining of the phrase "China Syndrome."

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