Decades after two of the country’s seminal environmental events, the accidents at Three Mile Island and Valdez still color the country’s energy and environment debates. Host Bruce Gellerman and Washington correspondent Jeff Young talk about what lessons apply to today’s discussion of nuclear power and oil.
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