Often people like to refer to the "accident" at Three Mile Island, but didn't a meltdown actually occur? I'm grateful that our prayers were answered and that the consensus view seems to be that there are no adverse long-term health or environmental consequences of the event. It's obviously a very difficult experience to forget. We now know that a partial meltdown did occur but there was never any hard information that the so-called "China Syndrome" was ever a likelihood. Carter and only after assurances from NRC officials that there was no hazard involved. Richard Thornburgh: My tour of the plant didn't occur until Sunday after the accident, April 1, and in the company of President and Mrs. How confident or nervous did you feel going on that tour of the plant shortly after the start of the crisis? How likely did the chance of a meltdown seem to you given the information you were receiving at the time? And how do you feel about it all now 20 years later? Our first question for the governor was from Washington, D.C. Four days after the accident, he accompanied then-President Jimmy Carter on a tour of the power plant to calm public fears about the threat of a deadly meltdown or explosion. attorney general in the Bush administration, eventually advised children and pregnant women to leave the immediate area of the plant. Thornburgh's decision-making on whether to evacuate was frustrated by confusing signals from experts at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the utility that operated the power plant on the Susquehanna River - just 10 miles from his office in Harrisburg. Twenty years after the crisis, Thornburgh joined us live today from his Washington, D.C., law office to discuss how he handled the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident.
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