long before harrisburg and election was scheduled to let austin voters decide. the anti-nuclear forces started out with little help, particularly since the claim the ballot led voters to believe that if austin did drop out of the nuclear plant, it will cost even more money for coal alternative. 10 days before the election, was three mile island. >> we ran into that reaction before. >> i sure have. we will have to put more money in. >> to have nothing but cold -- >> that's the problem. >> the issues of the election were complex, dealing with trade-offs and choosing future energy sources. three mile island and safety a factor in the campaign but with the plant 160 mouse frosting, the concerns remain economic. >> it is for: 06 now in austin, radio 59. time for the second part of viewpoint with barbara robinson. >> my guest is dr. neil concert. judy is against the nuclear project in south texas. good afternoon, you are on viewpoint. >> i would like to ask for the cost estimation. >> that sounds a good question for you. >> if there should be a meltdown in the project

next, the keynote talk from a penn state harrisburg event marking the 40th anniversary. nuclear power engineer are together some -- arnie gundersen argues that the harrisburg area should have been evacuated their weird more radiation was released -- evacuated. more mediation was released than originally acknowledged. this is 35 minutes. >> thank you, everyone for being here. i am honored to help coordinate the 40th anniversary of three-mile island conference with dr. holly angelique. and have to coordinate between teaching atr harrisburg, i was doing my phd at the university of british columbia in canada and i was cosmopolitanism. i was reading a book by ulrich ulrich beck called "a world at risk here: he referenced the nuclear accident. so i was reading this book, and at this time, the fukushima nuclear accident happened. it really alter the focus of how i was going to joke about research.anism in my i worked on publications do they with fukushima and also helped with the 35th anniversary conference here with three-mile island, and it was just an uncanny coincidence but

narrator: hundreds of reporters were in harrisburg last month. among them, a number of cbs news crews covering the minute by minute developments at three mile island. but it became quickly evident that the power plant accident would continue to be a major story, with implications long after the crisis. in the midst of the drama, cbs reports dispatched documentary teams, not only to harrisburg, but to the white house, texas, and connecticut, to examine the implications of the accident not evident at the time. we talked to many of the key players both during the crisis and immediately after. as we watched, a disturbing pattern emerged. all those who should have had the answers seemed trapped within a frightening search for the facts. >> nrc has ordered officials to seven other nuclear plants around the country. narrator: richard thornburg had been governor of pennsylvania for less than 3 months. he was the first elected official to confront the possibility of a nuclear catastrophe. it was the worst accident in the history of the nuclear industry. b

next, the keynote talk from a penn state harrisburg event marking the 40th anniversary. nuclear power engineer are together some -- arnie gundersen argues that the harrisburg area should have been evacuated their weird more radiation was released -- evacuated. more mediation was released than originally acknowledged. this is 35 minutes. >> thank you, everyone for being here. i am honored to help coordinate the 40th anniversary of three-mile island conference with dr. holly angelique. and have to coordinate between teaching atr harrisburg, i was doing my phd at the university of british columbia in canada and i was cosmopolitanism. i was reading a book by ulrich

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this is about 90 minutes. >> march 28, 1979, the events just outside of harrisburg, pennsylvania. for the xt

i helped coordinate the 35th anniversary my first year teaching at penn state harrisburg. i was doing my phd at the university of british columbia in canada and i was readying cosmopolitanism that has a lot of syllables in it, i was reading a book by ulrich beck, a will that risk and he was talking about events that transcend national boundaries, they become be on the nation and cosmopolitan. one of the things he referenced in examples of this were nuclear power plant explosions. i was reading his book and i was writing on cosmopolitanism in at this time, the fukushima nuclear disaster happened and that really altered the focus of how i was going to talk about cosmopolitanism in my research and i did work on publications dealing with fukushima and it later helping with the 35th anniversary conference here with 3 mile island. it was just an uncanny coincidence that i find myself working on a campus location close to 3 mile island having studied fukushima. thank you for being here, i want to, at this point introduce our keynote speaker, arnie gunderson . >> arnie gunderson i

. >> march 28, 1979 right outside harrisburg, pennsylvania, the next minutes we look a back at the three mile island accident, which was the partial meltdown of the reactor number 2 at the facility in pennsylvania. it occurs 40 years ago. the incident rated a 5 on the 7-point national nuclear event scale. as the story continue to unfold, here is how ed bradley covered it. >> this evacuation -- evacuation, please stay indoors with your windows closed. >> this is not a community that scares easily. major floods and hurricane agness has come here and the town survives, but for a week last month the people of middletown, pennsylvania lived with an enemy they could not see, hear, or feel. >> radiation following the partial meltdown at tmi considered the most serious nuclear power tragedy in the u.s. eric epstein is joining us live. he is the chair of the three mile island alert, which is what? >> three-mile island alert is a safe energy organization, founded in 1977, two years before the accident at three mile island, a nuclear watch group that monitors three mile island and peach bottom, thr

statefrom a penn harrisburg event, marking the 40th anniversary, a medical doctor who studies thyroidhe harrisburg area and three university perspective -- professors detail the health risks, political developments, and social changes that stem from three mile island, and the 2011 nuclear disaster at fukushima, japan. this is about 90 minutes. togreat, welcome everyone the second half of our

caller: i too lived in the harrisburg area at the time of tmi. what i recall about the incident was my parents as well as urgently came to school removed me from elementary school and our family then packed up and headed to pittsburgh where i was from. but the question i was calling to ask about is both of my siblings had sickle cell anemia. after the evpbt experienced bone marrow suppression. so neither had enough supply of blood to last them more than a week or two with regard to their condition. i've always had the question with regard to radiation in the air, if you want to term it that, what were the effects short of cancers that we may be discussing and debating here now 40 years later from the immediate effects? i look at that through the context of the lens of a scientists but also thinking of some of the other mass casualty events, for example with the bombings in japan, chernobal, what is it that we've ever been able to discern with some of those immediate effects and specifically with bone marrow suppression or people with sickle cell

when the accident occurred in harrisburg, it was still being shown into theaters in the harrisburg area. and they put on extra showings on friday and saturday night. on those two nights, the two theaters in harrisburg put on the chinaings of syndrome, and apparently the theater was packed for those extra showings. >> linda in minneapolis. and robert thanks for adding. what a great adition to the program. >> good morning. i have a couple of questions. i think they're pretty quick to answer, maybe. the first one and perhaps the most important is -- or the more important one is i wondered if there was any information about how this problem of nuclear waste can be safely solved. is this insolvable? and i mean, it never goes away. what's to do with the waste. the second is maybe connected to it is what is the status of the hanford plant in east washington? >> we'll get a response. >> those are great questions. i did write a book on radioactive waste sometime after my book on three mile island. so the history of that is in there. it was not well handled by the atomic energy commission, the nr

fromommunity activists harrisburg, pennsylvania. they reflect on how these accidents affected the surrounding communities and economies. this is about one hour and 15 minutes. up,irst, if she gets hooked we will hear from paula kinn and mom anda wife called herself a surprise activist. after the accident, she started a group with a group of friends called concerned mothers and women. i can tell you, she almost never --ses the candlelight to get candlelight vigil and this is significant, this is also her wedding anniversary. then we'll hear from our other guest, an independent journalist from fukushima. andhas visited us before she has investigated the prevalence of thyroid cancer in the fukushima region. slides she is asking not to be filmed and she will announce that before she shows it. the chair of three mile island alerts, and he has been involved in research into decommissioning, emergency planning, and safety at peach bottom, susquehanna nuclear plants for 35 years. he looks younger than he must be. [laughter] he has written n

we begin your harrisburg, pennsylvania but i guess you lives near three-mile island. this is about 90 minutes. >> "washington journal" continues. for the next 90 minutes on historyton journal" and -- american history tv, we look island's.ree mile the instrument rated a five on thel

. >>> now, to community activists from harrisburg pennsylvania, an independent journalist from fukushima and a japanese visual artist who lives in new york city reflect on how to nuclear power accidents affected the surrounding communities and economies. this event is one of several hosted by penn state harrisburg to mark the 40th anniversary of 3 mile island. this is one hour and 20 minutes. >>> first, if she gets hooked up, we will hear from paula kinney, wife and mom trying to live her wife and mom life and calls herself a surprise activist after the accident she started a group with a group of friends called concerned mothers and women. i can tell you she almost never misses a candlelight vigil and this is especially significant because it's also your wedding anniversary. for 40 years you've not been able to properly celebrate your wedding anniversary. >> then we hear from an independent journalist from fukushima, she has visited us before and it has investigated the prevalence of thyroid cancer in the fukushima region. one of the slides in the equivalent of a hipaa violation, she is

statefrom a penn harrisburg event, marking the 40th anniversary, a medical doctor who studies thyroid cancer in the harrisburg area and three university perspective -- professors detail the health risks, political developments, and social changes that stem from three mile island, and the 2011 nuclear disaster at fukushima, japan. this is about 90 minutes. togreat, welcome everyone the second half of our tmi 40, honoring the community and the legacy of the accident at three mile island. i hope you are able to enjoy some dinner. we are at our second and last panel for the evening, our academic panel. it's titled health, action, and public policy. academic contributions. and our panelists will be speaking in order, and you all have about 15 minutes is the idea. is here from penn bete medical center, he will speaking on altered molecular profiles and thyroid cancer in tmi vicinity. is here fromeaker the college of coastal georgia. she will be speaking on lessons for long-term activism on three mile island. is fromd presenter stanford university, and california. she will speak on living in

when you came in and said what happened is that we are about to move to baltimore, and harrisburg has been captured. they had no idea what happened. they had to regiments of infantry there, the fifth and 52nd, into calvary. they knew a lot of their men's lives were at stake. on tuesday, july 7, they finally got the first word, that they took outdated use. one in to know what had happened, especially to their local men. they rushed to get the newspaper. he was surprised and shocked, it is hard to learn, that pittsburgh -- they are all looking up the valley turnpike to pennsylvania waiting for that, instead he said they could just not believe it. the they were not prepared at all. he said and what we heard what is happening in pennsylvania, the city lee took 30,000 of the enemy. he said i am not prepared to believe that. keeping the other parts to guard the line, instead of marking the pennsylvania, and capturing the 40,000 yankees. but arousing the spirit of the north, and we couldn't marry the yanks by means. you heard what really happened. he could hardly believe, this one little dis

now a documentary from may 1, 1979, on the march 28, 1979 three mile island near harrisburg, pennsylvania, the program looks at the response of the local community and government officials and interviews nuclear power proponents and skeptics and seeks to learn how similar incidents can be prevented in the future. according to the nuclear regulatory commission, three mile island was the most serious accident in history of newark nuclear power plant operations

hit from both sides from a can't campaign well because they are like why do you want to move to harrisburg? you're not a very good mother. and the disparate roles of state legislatures in accommodating and inviting women into statewide office. >> i would like to take that? also your final thoughts. as well. >> well, i guess i'll say something about that. you are absolutely right, these are still barriers that women face. moving to washington or thinking about not moving to washington because most members of congress now don't move to washington but you know, but thinking about you know, going back and forth, and women still get asked on the campaign trail all the time, you know, what about your kids? who's taking care? and men very rarely get asked that question. one of the interesting findings from our book is that we ask women, you know, what the obstacles were they faced in congress. and one of the most surprising things to us was that they brought this up spontaneously, they faced more difficult obstacles getting there than they do once they are there. so you know, you are sort of allu

the partial melt down near harrisburg, pennsylvania is considered the most serious nuclear power accident in u.s. history. we look back at the incident with the cbs news documentary from the period, fallout from three mile island. that's followed by an american history tv and washington journal co production with guests samuel walker author of three mile island and eric epstein, chair of three mile island alert who talked about his experiences at the time and how the community is marking the 40th anniversary. watch that tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern here on c-span 3's american history tv. >>> and on book tv in primetime it's discussions on political memoirs. we will begin with contempt, a memoir of the clinton investigations, george papadopoulos on deep state target. william burns on the back channel and robert brown's you can't go wrong doing right. it starts tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. looking ahead to next week, attorney general william barr testifies on the mueller report. his first appearance is wednesday before the senate judiciary committee at 10:00 a.m. eastern.

. >>> the top advisers of trump's reelection campaign met in harrisburg to talk about 2020. if they can win for pennsylvania, they can win it all again. it's that simple and that tough for both sides. trump won pennsylvania with three winning arguments. he would do something about illegal immigration, oppose abortion and would not be hillary clinton. it worked because a lot of blue collar voters believed the democratic party had grown too elite. as the pittsburgh friend of mine say people don't mind being used, they mind being discarded. he made clear he would hit the democrats for open borders, late term abortion and socialism. the theory of why this trifecta would work was propounded 70 years ago by a guy who was richard nixon's first campaign adviser. the rule was that voters can take up no more than three issues in any election to make sure all three are about your opponent and all three are negative. in the early 1950s, they destroyed the democrats with communism, corruption, and they let them out on weekend furloughs, refusing to fine teachers for not leading in the pl

. >>> the partial meltdown at 3 mile island near harrisburg pennsylvania in the spring of 1979 is considered the most serious new were power accident in u.s. history, we look back at the incident with a news documentary from the period of fallout from 3 mile island and later we will hear from daniel walker offer of 3 mile island in historic's perspective given eric epstein, chair of the 3 mile island alert, who discusses the 40th anniversary of the accident, that starts thursday at 8 p.m. eastern on american history tv here on cspan-3. >>> attorney general william barr will testify before the house and senate judiciary committees on the mueller report live wednesday and thursday, may 1 and second on cspan-3 c-span.org or you can listen with the free c-span radio app. >>> next on american history tv , conversation on journalism and double right. we will hear from investigative journalists, jerry mitchell who talks about his 30 year career with the jackson mississippi clarion ledger, america can histories reporting workshop and school of communications cohosted this event. >> good evening. my

focus is as politico report that is the senior adviser to president trump's election bid met in harrisburg and concerns over the president's ability to win the state in 2020. biden enters at the top of most polls and was asked what makes him the best choice. let's watch. >> why are you the best choice for democrats? >> that will be for the democrats to decide. >> with the latest poll, they have him leading by seven points over bernie sanders. in a new poll, the vice president is beating president trump by eight points if the election were held today. i am joined by barbara boxer in california. eli is the white house reporter for the l.a. times and jamie harrison and former chair of the south carolina democratic party. we have a real journalist here. let's start with the senator. joe biden, the good, the bad and the ugly. give us the full joe, if you can, senator. >> i know i can because i have known him since the 80s. i was very touched by his video today. it wasn't me me or i i or this is what i can do and the only one who can win. he has an unbelievable personal story to tell, but he cho

host: tom, harrisburg, pennsylvania. good morning. caller: good morning.our guests sophia, she is right, you do not need ohio, but you know what, no democrats win pennsylvania right now. zero. there is one democrat have any chance to win pennsylvania, and unfortunately that is joe biden. in 20, bernie sanders would have but in 2020,nia, joe biden has to get out of the way of these allegations, but a 2020 bernie sanders, there is no chance. trump is extremely popular, and look at michigan, when he gave candidate --this when was the last republican who could go to michigan and draw 20,000 people? inrump comes to speak pennsylvania at hershey or something, he will drop 20,000 people. there are zero democrats that will be able to do that. is one person, and i would agree with your guests, conor lamb, he will be a great --ocrat frannie running mate great running mate for any democrat. host: thank you. guest: i think it is a little candidateay what granit would be great to run against donald trump, but he had said he would have had a harder time hillaryld it bee

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the partial meltdown in 1979 near harrisburg, pennsylvania, is considered the most serious nuclear power accident in u.s. history. we look back at the incident, with a cbs news documentary from the period, fallout from three mile island. that's followed by an american history tv, and washington journal co-production, with guest samuel walker, author of "three mile island, a nuclear crisis and historical perspective" and eric epstein, chair of "three mild island alert" who talked about his experiences at the time and how the community is marking the 40th anniversary. watch that tonight, beginning at 8:00 p.m. here on c-span 3 american history tv. >>> and on book tv in prime time, it's discussions on political memoirs. we will begin with ken star and his book "contempt," a memoir of the clinton investigations. senator dug jones, on "bending toward justice," george papadopoulos, on "deep state target "kwrks william burns on the back channel and robert brown's, you can't go wrongdoing write. it starts tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span 2. >>> looking ahead to next week, attorney general

the partial meltdown in 1979 near harrisburg, pennsylvania, is considered the most serious nuclear power accident in u.s. history. we look back at the incident with the cbs news documentary from the period, "fallout from three mile island." that's followed by an american history tv and washington journal co production with guest samuel walker, author of "three mile island" and eric epstein, chair of three mile island alert, who talked about his experiences at the time and how the community is marking the 40th anniversary. watch that tonight, beginning at 8:00 eastern, here on c-span3's american history tv. >>> and on book tv in prime time, it's discussions on political memoirs. we'll begin with ken starr and his book, "contempt: a memoir of the clinton investigations." senator doug jones on "bending toward justice." george papadopoulos on "deep state target." william burns on "the back channel" and robert brown's "you can't go wrongdoing right." it starts tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >>> looking ahead to next week, attorney general william barr testifies on the mueller repor

host: tom, harrisburg, pennsylvania. good morning. caller: good morning.r guests sophia, she is right, you do not need ohio, but you know what, no democrats win pennsylvania right now. zero. there is one democrat have any chance to win pennsylvania, and unfortunately that is joe biden. in 20, bernie sanders would have but in 2020,nia, joe biden has to get out of the way of these allegations, but a 2020 bernie sanders, there is no chance. trump is extremely popular, and look at michigan, when he gave candidate --this when was the last republican who could go to michigan and draw 20,000 people? inrump comes to speak pennsylvania at hershey or something, he will drop 20,000 people. there are zero democrats that will be able to do that. is one person, and i would agree with your guests, conor lamb, he will be a great --ocrat frannie running mate great running mate for any democrat. host: thank you. guest: i think it is a little candidateay what granit would be great to run against donald trump, but he had said he would have had a harder time hillaryld it been

harrisburg was a failure. it went bankrupt. joe biden is going to pittsburgh.that area. well-loved, blue-collar guy who understands the people. pennsylvania failed under ed rendell. it failed under democratic rule. philadelphia is a mess. there is no other way to put it politically. the people are suffering. they were going to kill coal, kill energy, kill the key issues that matter to pennsylvaniaian and biden will go out there to run against that? trump won narrowly against hillary clinton but he won because he changed significant percentage of voters in the lehigh valley, other areas, the need to bring back what they have to maximize for their economy and their families. ainsley: the president, all those manufacturing jobs he created, remember krugman was saying this is never going to happen, pipe-dream basically. president obama said the same thing. the numbers are astronomically high bringing back those jobs. >> talk to the people in pennsylvania. let them tell you what is going on, not some poll or some pundit steve: in the polls joe biden is ahead? >> ste

. >> i started a small mall beer and soft ring retailer in harrisburg, pennsylvania. opened that my second semester at the school of business. on a total strew string -- shoe string. we painted the sides, we build stands,ers, built the and i began the retail business. that has blossomed. fast forward couple decades later, a lot of hard work later, to a company called total wine. total wine is the largest retailer in the united states privately owned for wine, beer, and spirits. we operate in 23 states. we have over 7000 team members. we do over $3 billion in sales. host: if you want to learn more about congressman sharon -- trone, go to c-span.org. carol in new york, democrat. what you think of the 116th congress? caller: i am not going to speak about the congress as a whole, but i do want to give a shout out to to my freshman representative, anthony brindisi. he defeated a tea party type. is evenike about him -- 1%,he won by about 8% he has remained true to his campaign promise to be a slightly left moderate. about his action so far is as a member of the problem solv

. >> 40 years ago, on march 28, 1979, the three mile island reactor near harrisburg pennsylvania partially melted down. according to the nuclear regulatory commission, this was the most serious accident in the history of u.s. commercial nuclear power plant operations. next on "reel america," "fallout from three mile island," a cbs reports documentary from may 1, 1979. the hour-long investigation looks at the response of the local community and government officials. it visit to connecticut nuclear power plant, interviews nuclear power proponents and skeptics, and looks at how similar incidents can be avoided in the future. >> it is time for evacuation. please stay indoors with your windows closed. >> this is not a community that scares easily. major floods and hurricane agnes has come here, and the town has survived. but for almost a week last month, the people of middletown, pennsylvania lived in fear of an enemy they couldn't see, hear, or feel. thousa

the accident occurred here at the three mile island nuclear power plant a dozen miles south of harrisburg. at about 4:00 this morning two water pumps that helped cool reactor number two shut down. officials say some 50 to 60,000 gallons of radioactive water escaped into the reactor building and that the radioactivity penetrated the plant's wall. steam escaped into the atmosphere and radiation was detected as far as a mile away. at least 50 workers and perhaps twice that number were at the plant when the accident occurred. a spokesman admitted that some were exposed to radioactivity and may have been contaminated but he claimed no one was injured. all workers were given extensive checks with giger counters as they left the plant. reporters were not permitted inside the facility today but this is what reactor number two's control room looked like last september when it was still underg is what president carter said just a few days after the accident occurred. >> the president came to the plant for one very simple reason. to assure the people that if the president of the united states and th

i attended the public hearing in harrisburg last year. we heard the vista volunteers tell you that the only way they were able to do that was because they were basically subsidized by their families. because they were privileged enough, lucky enough to be born into a family that they could do that. it was noted in your executive summary of what you've heard so far, i'm happy to see that. it was kind of laughed at when somebody mentioned a free education. and maybe education benefits are a benefit afterwards. however, if you don't have a free education or at least free interest-free student loans, then some people can enter the peace corps, some can enter americorps and the rest are forced, whether they want to or not, to enter the biggest, largest employer in the public sector that will take them, which is the military. now, the quaker violating somebody's conscience because they literally have no other choice but to fulfill your mandatory requirement. i don't think you understand how deeply that sense of conscience is held. and i would u