This iconic Associated Press photo shows then-President Jimmy Carter, center, with Harold Denton, left, of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and then-Gov. Dick Thornburgh, left rear, in Three Mile Island's Unit 2 control room on April 1, 1979. Two weeks earlier, the York Daily Record's reporting suggested an accident could happen. (See additional photo, video below.) Background posts: Three Mile Island emergency indelibly written into memories and Availability of microfilm an oft-posed question and Publishing legend Gitt vocal about nuclear power.
The partial meltdown of Three Mile Island's Unit 2 reactor put York countians to the test 30 years ago.
Just check out the oral histories that are part of the York Daily Record/Sunday News' "Remember" series if you need a refresher.
Or read the stories about the accident's impact, with a graphic of what went wrong that March day in 1979.
The York Daily Record was tested, too.
About two weeks earlier, a major reporting project suggested that a major nuclear accident could occur... .
