Three Mile Island’s Nuclear Meltdown (1979)
On March 28, 1979, a partial failure of a nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island resulted in the largest radioactive disaster in US commercial history. Fallout from the reactor continues to impact the surrounding area to this day. It’s worth remembering just how scary nuclear power was during its early days (and still is, for that matter), and how the danger of radiation cast a shadow over the entirety of the ’70s.