One of the most incredible stories of the late 1970s was Three Mile Island. The movie The China Syndrome had just come out, starring Jane Fonda. It was about an American nuclear power plant that had an accident that almost led to complete meltdown. The movie was met with backlash from the nuclear power industry's claims of it being "sheer fiction" and a "character assassination of an entire industry". They claimed it could never happen.
In the most bizarre case of art predicting life, 12 days later, there was a very similar accident at Three Mile Island in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Three Mile Island was a turning point in the global development of nuclear power. From 1963 to 1979, the number of reactors under construction globally increased in almost every year. Following the event, the number of reactors under construction in the US declined from 1980 to 1998. In total, 51 US nuclear reactors were canceled between 1980 and 1984.
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