Harvey Wasserman: People Died at Three Mile Island

Harvey WassermanHarvey Wasserman (photo, left) has been writing about atomic energy and the green alternatives since 1973. His 1982 assertion to Bryant Gumbel on NBC's TODAY Show that people were killed at TMI sparked a national mailing from the reactor industry demanding a retraction. NBC was later bought by General Electric, still a major force pushing atomic power.

(Several years ago, GE's nuclear division was bought out by Hitachi of Japan, forming GE-Hitachi, GEH. Since 2008, Beyond Nuclear has been part of an environmental coalition actively fighting a GEH "Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor," a so-called ESBWR, targeted at the Great Lakes shore in Monroe County, Michigan.)

Five years ago, for the 30-year mark of the Three Mile Island meltdown disaster, in 2009 Harvey wrote "People Died at Three Mile Island," that originally appeared at http://freepress.org, and was also posted at Huffington Post. "People Died at Three Mile Island" is also the title for a chapter in Wasserman's book Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation (Delta, 1982), co-authored by Norman Solomon, along with Robert Alvarez and Eleanor Walters.

(To learn more about TMI Truth, visit Beyond Nuclear's website section devoted to the subject.)

Harvey serves as the editor of Nukefree.org, and as a senior advisor to Greenpeace and NIRS. He is the author of Solartopia.