What Happened To Three Mile Island (Is It Still Operational)?

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Netflix's Meltdown: Three Mile Island is based on the infamous Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear plant catastrophe in 1979 — 43 years later, here's the plant's operational status and current state. Three Mile Island is based in Middletown, Pennsylvania, a town along the Susquehanna River with an estimated population of 11,000 people at the time of the nuclear meltdown. Making up TMI are two units, simply labeled Unit 1 and Unit 2. A mere three months after beginning commercial operation, TMI's Unit 2 experienced a nuclear reactor meltdown that, upon investigation, was only 30 minutes away from producing a devastating hydrogen explosion that would have affected the East Coast indefinitely.

Meltdown: Three Mile Island is a four-part limited documentary series detailing the catastrophe itself and the scandal that followed during its cleanup. Aside from it being a documentary, Three Mile Island is similar to HBO's lauded series Chernobyl in its portrayal of the environmental, emotional, political, and legal impact that the TMI catastrophe created. Netflix'sThree Mile Island reveals that secrets withheld by officials both before TMI Unit 2's operation and after TMI's nuclear meltdown contributed to significantly endangering the community. While brave whistleblowers like the TMI cleanup supervisor Rick Parks and his attorney Billie Garde exposed these secrets and saved millions, the Three Mile Island catastrophe nonetheless created a great deal of mistrust in the Middletown community toward the nuclear power industry and exposed tens of thousands to radiation poisoning. Exacerbating the distrust at the time toward nuclear power was the movie The China Syndrome, a 1970s sci-fi film holding eerily coincidental similarities to the