Three Mile Island: 'They Say Nothing Happened' - 0 views
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Energy Net on 01 Mar 10"According to the TV program What Happened?, broadcast on NBC earlier this year (3/16/93), "the system worked" during the 1979 nuclear accident at Three Mile Island (TMI). Although there were problems with "communication," the show reported, with the undamaged unit of TMI back in operation, most people in the area now live happily with the TMI facility. "Today in Harrisburg life goes on, the incident is now in the past and most people are comfortable that it could never be repeated," the narrator of the program, produced by Hearst Entertainment for NBC, declares. Then local resident Debbie Baker says, "I'm not as afraid of it as I used to be." But that isn't all Baker said to the show's producers. "What they did was horrible," she told Extra!. "I can understand editing, but here the most crucial statements were edited out to make it look like everything was hunky dory." She said her full statement was that she is not as afraid since the Three Mile Island Citizens Monitoring Network, a group she works with, had set up an extensive network of radiation monitors around the plant. Baker said that the crew from What Happened? was well aware that she remains extremely uncomfortable with TMI."