Commentary: The legacy of nuclear power is checkered at best
(WorldNews Environment)

Forty years ago, on March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit 2 nuclear power reactor in central Pennsylvania - about 95 miles northwest of Dover - partially melted down and experienced at least one explosion. Many of us living in Delaware at the time were very concerned about being downwind and somewhat downstream of a nuclear accident of unknown magnitude. The causes were a combination of equipment failures, design defects and operator errors. The operators did not have accurate indications of what was going on in the reactor, so they couldn´t make the right decisions. Reportedly, more than half of the radiation monitors in the area were broken, so there was not adequate indication...