Sep 29, 2024: The case against restarting Three Mile Island’s Unit-1

The following three testimonials are from “Three Mile Island: The People’s Testament,” (1989), a series of interviews with approximately 250 Three Mile Island (TMI) area residents from 1979 to 1988 done by Katagiri Mitsuru, Professor of Social Psychology at Kyoto Seika University and Aileen M. Smith, free-lance journalist and co-author of the book Minamata.

Marie Holowka, Farmer, Zion’s View, PA

Saturday March 31, 1979

Friday March 30, 1979

Thursday March 29, 1979

March 28, 1979

Part 1

By Eric Epstein

  Exelon’s relocation of Three Mile Island’s Emergency Operations Facility (EOF) and Joint Information Center (JIC) to Chester County focused on geographic and technical considerations, as well as cost savings. These are important and meaningful components of this discussion. However, it is also necessary to review the history of communication and emergency preparedness problems at Three Mile Island (TMI).