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Movie Review


Meltdown at Three Mile Island. Prod. by Chana Gazit and David Steward. A Steward/Gazit Production, Inc., 1999. 60 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698)

"My life, at about 27 years old, is going to be over," the local reporter Mike Pintek thought during the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant accident, "because these—these arrogant utility operators have allowed this thing to run out of control and they're going to kill us." Pintek's words encapsulate the message of the documentary Meltdown at Three Mile Island, part of the Public Broadcasting Service's American Experience series. Through a tradition of technological arrogance and poor emergency planning, nuclear engineers, the documentary implies, have only themselves to blame for America's turn away from nuclear power and the experts who promoted it. . . .


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