Image: 0030721591, License: Rights managed, TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Karin Zeitvogel, US-energy-nuclear-accident-30years (FILES) This photo dated 01 November 2001 shows Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station site in Middletown, Pennsylvania. Thirty years after the accident at Three Mile Island shattered Americans’ trust in nuclear power, lawmakers were pushing for a nuclear energy rebirth as a safe, green way to wean the United States off foreign oil. No new reactors have been opened in the United States since the accident at Three Mile Island in central Pennsylvania, which began to unfold in the early hours of March 28, 1979 when cooling water started seeping through an open valve in a reactor. /TOM MIHALEK/FILES, Place: THREE MILE ISLAND,UNITED STATES, Model Release: No or not aplicable, Credit line: ., AFP
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