| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. By J. Samuel Walker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xii, 303 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-520-23940-7.)

J. Samuel Walker, historian for the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), has established himself as the dean of nuclear historians. Walker joined the history staff of the NRC in June 1979 shortly after the Three Mile Island (TMI) incident. With George Mazuzan, he was coauthor of the NRC's first official history, Controlling the Atom: The Beginnings of Nuclear Regulation, 1946–1962 (1985). He was the sole author of the NRC's two subsequent volumes: Containing the Atom: Nuclear Regulation in a Changing Environment, 1963–1971 (1992), and Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century (2000). All of the NRC histories have been published by the University of California Press. Rather than launch into the first volume of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's official institutional history, Walker chose instead to write a history of the NRC and the Three Mile Island crisis. Walker's decision was sound because by his own estimate the Three Mile Island accident "remains the single most important event in the fifty-year history of nuclear regulation in the United States" (pp. ix–x).

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