Three Mile
Island is the sight of the most serious U.S. commercial nuclear reactor
failure, which occurred on March 28, 1979, at the Three Mile Island reactor
near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Around the same time the movie The China
Syndrome was released, which portrayed a fictional accident at a nuclear
power plant that eerily resembled the Three Mile Island disaster.
Real and fictional examples of nuclear power's potential dangers encouraged
public support for the antinuclear movement.
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