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Tuesday, April 6, 2004 |
PBS: "At 4:00 AM on March 28, 1979, a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power facility near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suddenly overheated, releasing radioactive gases. During the ensuing tension-packed week, scientists scrambled to prevent the nightmare of a meltdown, officials rushed in to calm public fears, and thousands of residents fled to emergency shelters. Equipment failure, human error, and bad luck would conspire to create America's worst nuclear accident."
Go to PBS and WGBH for in-depth stories, education and news.
Recent contamination story: U.S. Soldiers contaminated with depleted uranium speak out.
9:31:42 PM 
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Arizona Daily Star: "More than 44 million American adults - a surprising number of them men - provide unpaid care to elderly relatives or friends, often at an enormous physical or emotional cost, researchers reported today.
A nationwide survey conducted for the National Alliance for Caregiving and the AARP, the nation's largest organization of people 50 and older, estimated that the value of family caregiving in America is $257 billion a year."
10:48:58 AM
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© Copyright 2004 Hetty Litjens.
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