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A night view of one of the cooling towers at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.
A night view of one of the cooling towers at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.

Credit: Historical Society of Dauphin County

In 1979, Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was the scene of the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident.

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