num_pages: 112
description: This riveting eyewitness report—including dramatic photos—takes readers right to the scene of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.March 28, 1979: It was 4 a.m. at the nuclear power plant on an island in the middle of the Susquehanna River. Suddenly, an alarm shrieked. Something was wrong inside the plant. Within minutes, human error and technical failure triggered the worst nuclear power accident in the United States, and, within hours, the eyes of the world would be on Three Mile Island. Thirty-four years after the bombing of Hiroshima, the crisis at Three Mile Island re-awoke the world to the dangers of nuclear power, and now, in MELTDOWN, Wilborn Hampton tells the hour-by-hour story of covering the accident as a U.P.I. reporter. His riveting eyewitness account will compel readers to consider one of the most serious questions facing humankind: where can we find affordable, sustainable energy, and at what risk?
language: English
title: Meltdown: A Race Against Nuclear Disaster at Three Mile Island: A Reporter's Story
titlecomplete: Meltdown: A Race Against Nuclear Disaster at Three Mile Island: A Reporter's Story
genres: Nonfiction, History, Science, Middle Grade
ratings_count: 45
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award
category: Young Adult–Nonfiction
publisher: Candlewick