摘要
At 3:55 a.m. on 28 March 1979, a noise that sounded like "the biggest jet at an airport" woke a woman living near the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. "It shook the windows, the whole house," she recalled [1]. The United States’ worst civilian nuclear accident had begun. "We are still dealing with the consequences," said James Miller, a nuclear engineer and professor in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.