Workers from Metropolitan Edison's Three Mile Island nuclear plant stand outside visitors center early on March 30, 1979, as two cooling towers from the nuclear plant are visible in the background. Officials at the site declared an "on-site emergency" later Friday morning. (Rusty Kennedy/AP)
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Workers from Metropolitan Edison's Three Mile Island nuclear plant stand outside visitors center early on March 30, 1979, as two cooling towers from the nuclear plant are visible in the background. Officials at the site declared an "on-site emergency" later Friday morning. (Rusty Kennedy/AP)
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Workers from Metropolitan Edison’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant stand outside the visitors center early on March 30, 1979, as two cooling towers from the nuclear plant are visible in the background. Two days earlier, an accident at the plant occurred that plunged an entire region into uncertainty and fear.
Lisa Wardle, WITF’s digital manager, pulled together this slideshow of historic photos of the aftermath of the partial meltdown.
Lisa also found footage of the first news conference after the accident with then-Gov. Dick Thornburgh.
PennLive’s Ron Southwick made the connection between the incident and the release just days prior of “The China Syndrome,” a movie about a near-miss at a nuclear plant in California.
Katie Blackley / WESA
Demonstrators hold up their hands during a march in solidarity with the family of Antwon Rose in downtown Pittsburgh.
Demonstrators took to the streets of Pittsburgh over the weekend in the wake of ex-East Pittsburgh police officer Michael Rosfeld’s acquittal on homicide charges in the fatal shooting last summer of 17-year-old Antwon Rose II. There also were shots fired at Rosfeld’s lawyer’s office the night after the verdict. Photos, video and more coverage from WESA are here.
Ontario cannabis company Canopy Growth Corporation recently purchased Berks-based hemp grower AgriNextUSA as part of an expansion plan that includes building hemp parks in the United States, according to this Associated Press report.
A total of $15 million has been set aside to remove lead from 30 public schools in Philadelphia — and it’s only a fraction of the multibillion-dollar cost estimate to address lead and other structural problems in buildings districtwide. Now, Gov. Tom Wolf is touting a severance tax as the way to pay for school facility projects throughout the state, notes Avi Wolfman-Arent in this Keystone Crossroads story.
