Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown

Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown is a 1982 book by Daniel Ford. Ford presents a "meticulous post-mortem of the events that nearly led to a meltdown" at the Metropolitan Edison station near Harrisburg in March 1979. He analyses the complex of people, technology, customs and regulations involved.^[1] Ford identifies regulatory failure and industry cost-cutting as the underlying causes of the Three Mile Island accident.^[2]

Daniel Ford is an economist and former director of the Union of Concerned Scientists.^[2]

See also

• List of books about nuclear issues
• The Cult of the Atom
• Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
• Three Mile Island accident health effects
• Robert Del Tredici

References

1. ↑ Non-fiction in brief
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gerald H. Clarfield and William M. Wiecek (1984). Nuclear America: Military and Civilian Nuclear Power in the United States 1940-1980, Harper & Row, New York, p. 469.