"Essential—and fascinating—reading for anyone interested in the dilemmas posed by nuclear power."—Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes
By 6:00 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, the reactor core at Three Mile Island was thirty minutes away from a meltdown, an apocalypse that would render a huge swath of eastern Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable. The control room crew was at a loss. The memo that would have warned them was never sent. This factual, riveting thriller is based on exclusive interviews with key operating personnel. Mike Gray, author of The China Syndrome, and Ira Rosen, producer for CBS's 60 Minutes, have updated this jackhammer narrative of mechanical failure and human error with an analysis of the current threats to our nuclear power plants. With a new introduction and epilogue for this reissue edition.
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A ripping thriller, made more compelling by the fact that it is true. -- Jack Anderson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Essential—and fascinating—reading for anyone interested in the dilemmas posed by nuclear power. -- Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes
This book is as explosive as the explosion it warns us about. It is as suspenseful as a good novel. -- Studs Terkel
Essential—and fascinating—reading for anyone interested in the dilemmas posed by nuclear power. -- Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes
This book is as explosive as the explosion it warns us about. It is as suspenseful as a good novel. -- Studs Terkel
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Mike Gray is an engineer, screenwriter, and author. He was the co-founder of The Film Group, a Chicago-based production company. He now lives in California.
Ira Rosen is a producer for CBS's 60 Minutes and a freelance writer. He lives in New York City.
Ira Rosen is a producer for CBS's 60 Minutes and a freelance writer. He lives in New York City.
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This review is from: The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island (Paperback)
Very intriguing book about the near disaster at Three Mile Island. Very well written, it keeps you spellbound to the very last period. It explains what went wrong with excellent detail. Enough information to keep you spellbound, but not enough to bore you with unnecessary details. A very well written book. A must if you want to learn the true story about Three Mile Island.
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Surprisingly good mix of technical detail and storytelling,
This review is from: The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island (Paperback)
As someone who works at a Nuclear plant, I've had much training on the accident at TMI in much greater detail than provided in this book (although, Gray does do a decent job at explaining how operators responded to that paricular event...he does leave out a lot, however). The best thing about this, for me, was his obvious research with regard to other facilities that had the same problem prior to TMI and the lack of a Nuclear network to help get the word out (we have an extensive network of information sharing now). The character descriptions are excellent and the story does flow like a novel...get this book (if you can find it...it's been out of print for a while) if you want a reasonably close explanation of what occured at TMI, but get it more for the story and the background information.
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Most gripping non-fiction I have ever read,
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This review is from: The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Omen for the Age of Terror (Paperback)
I started reading this for background on nuclear safety, not expecting it to be an enjoyable read. Not only did I get the information I was hoping for, I really enjoyed the book. The author weaves technical information into the story in a way that is not at all intimidating, and writes of the participants particularly well. I ended up recommending this to several people who have no interest in nuclear tech, or even history, because it is an excellent work regardless of ones interest.
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From the boardroom window, Jim Neely looks out across New York Harbor, and his thoughts are as dark as the winter sky over Jersey. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
power relief valve, core flood tanks, pressurizer level, turbine building, makeup pumps, reactor coolant system, emergency pumps, auxiliary building, reactor loop, containment building, fuel pins, reactor building, block valve, core damage, coolant loop, general emergency, decay heat, hydrogen bubble, coolant pumps, air pack, coolant water Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Three Mile Island, Harold Denton, Unit One, Joe Hendrie, Jack Herbein, Bert Dunn, Gary Miller, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Jim Creswell, Roger Mattson, White House, Bill Zewe, Carl Michelson, Jim Floyd, Toledo Edison, Observation Center, George Kunder, New Jersey, Region Three, Chairman Hendrie, Frank Walters, Governor Thornburgh, Incident Response Center, Joe Kelly, Metropolitan Edison New!
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From the boardroom window, Jim Neely looks out across New York Harbor, and his thoughts are as dark as the winter sky over Jersey. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
power relief valve, core flood tanks, pressurizer level, turbine building, makeup pumps, reactor coolant system, emergency pumps, auxiliary building, reactor loop, containment building, fuel pins, reactor building, block valve, core damage, coolant loop, general emergency, decay heat, hydrogen bubble, coolant pumps, air pack, coolant water Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Three Mile Island, Harold Denton, Unit One, Joe Hendrie, Jack Herbein, Bert Dunn, Gary Miller, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Jim Creswell, Roger Mattson, White House, Bill Zewe, Carl Michelson, Jim Floyd, Toledo Edison, Observation Center, George Kunder, New Jersey, Region Three, Chairman Hendrie, Frank Walters, Governor Thornburgh, Incident Response Center, Joe Kelly, Metropolitan Edison New!
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