Warning Accident at Three Mile Island A Nuclear Omen for the Age of Terror

By 6:00 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, the reactor core at Three Mile Island was thirty minutes away from a meltdown, an apocalypse that would render a huge swath of eastern Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable. The control room crew was at a loss. The memo that would have warned them was never sent. This factual, riveting thriller is based on exclusive interviews with key operating personnel. Mike Gray, author of The China Syndrome, and Ira Rosen, producer for CBS's 60 Minutes, have updated this jackhammer narrative of mechanical failure and human error with an analysis of the current threats to our nuclear power plants. With a new introduction and epilogue for this reissue edition.Gray, Mike is the author of 'Warning Accident at Three Mile Island A Nuclear Omen for the Age of Terror', published 2003 under ISBN 9780393324693 and ISBN 0393324699.