![]() ![]() The Coles live in an area near Three Mile Island nuclear generating plant. One-year-old Elizabeth Cole sits on the lap of her mother, Karen, at an athletic arena at Hershey Park, Pa., Friday, March 30, 1979. They are leaving after being warned of radiation leaking at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Harold Stoner carries boxes of provisions into the back of his van as his wife, Hazel, wears a towel over her head preparing to leave their home with grandson Joshua in Harrisburg, Pa., March 30, 1979. The conference was held because of an accident that occured at the company’s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., that caused radiation leakage into the atmosphere. Walter Creitz, right, president of Metropolitan Edison Company, turns away as company Vice President John Herbein answers questions at a news conference in Hershey, Pa., on March 29, 1979. Workers gather readings near the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on March 28, 1979. (Allied Pix archive at the Historical Society of Dauphin County)Ī helicopter is seen flying after a general emergency was called at Three Mile Island on March 28, 1979. (AP)Ī safety official checks a worker from the Three Mile Island PWR for possible exposure to radioactivity, on March 28, 1979, in Middletown, Pa., shortly after an accident at the nuclear power plant led to the release of radioactive gas from the reactor into the atmosphere. Press surround Three Mile Island Observation Center on March 28, 1979.Īn empty containment tank enters the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant at Middletown, Penn., March, 1979. Metropolitan Edison Vice President John “Jack” Herbein speaks with reporters on March 28, 1979. People are seen inside Three Mile Island on Feb. Night crew at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant wear protective clothing as they sit in the back of a truck that transported them to the shut-down power plant in Harrisburg, Pa., March 29, 1977, at the beginning of their shift. ![]()
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