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Guest Essay: March 28, 1979 -- Three Mile Island

PA Environment Daily

commercial nuclear power industry. The accident occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant Unit 2 near Middletown, a few miles downstream from Harrisburg. Mankind has had lots of fears through history, but as Dick put it later, radiation is one of "the worst fears of modern man." More jitters.

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Michael Shellenberger talks with Nick O’Malley, National Editor of Climate and the Environment, Sydney Morning Herald

Environmental Progress

So you say that the 2020 fires burned half as much as the 2002 fires. I checked those figures and the figures that I can see the public figures in Australia are that in 2020, 18 million hectares burned, and in 2002 21 million. Nick: I mean, it's something to think about when you're advocating an idea, like, lifespan for nuclear power.