Submitted August 18, 2008, 5:05 PM
What do you remember about the accident at Three Mile Island? How did you hear about what happened at the plant? What was your reaction?
I was a Physician Assistant Studant at Hershey Medical Center. I lived at the Penn State Middletown Campus. I learned of the problem while in class the first day.
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If you were a resident living close-by the plant, please describe your experiences. If you had preschool children or were pregnant at the time, did you follow the evacuation advisory? Did you flee the area?
My friends and I did leave. we went to the Southwestern portion of Pa. Our departure did not occur wutil the following day in the late afternoon. We were not frightened until we ask on of our instructors what he thought and his reply was that his wife and children were already in western New York,
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What did you think of the responses of the government, the industry and the press to the accident?
It was a time of pure confusion with all of the mixed reports of the danger involves.
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What are your reflections about the Three Mile Island accident more than two decades later? If you live or lived in the area, what longterm effects did TMI have on your family and community? Did the accident affect your opinion about nuclear power and other technologies?
One of my housemates has been infertile, another with no family history of breast cancer has had breast cancer, in January we buried another housemate due to metastatic nonsmall cell lung cancer, another couple(married classmates) had a Down's Syndrome baby who also had multiple congenital problems including cardiac, and I had a very rare cornu ectopic pregnancy. Were these things related to the radiation exposure-- we will probably never know. Over the years we have lost contact with all of the classmates who lived in the university housing.
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In addition to saving your story to the archive, may we post it to the web? (yes/no)
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