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We Are the Guinea Pigs

Three Mile Island and the Catastrophe of Nuclear Power

6.0/ 1019801h 30m

Documentary

Farmers and parents of young children, who live in the Harrisburg, Pa., area, discuss their fears of radioactive contamination from the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor accident in 1979. Scientists and physicians also expound on the lethal dangers of nuclear power and the risks in containment processes.

Directed by Joan Harvey

The cast

Faces behind the story

Joan Harvey

Joan Harvey

Self - Interviewer (voice)

Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku

Self - Professor of Physics, City University of New York

Clair Hoover Sr.

Self - Dairy Farmer, Middletown, Pa.

Walter Hooper

Self - Parent, Harrisburg, Pa.

Sheryl Hooper

Self - Parent, Harrisburg, Pa.

Gene Adams

Self - President, Local 1688, United Steelworkers of America

Tom Jenkins

Self - President, Harrisburg Coalition of Black Trade Unions

Suzanne Magda

Self - High School Teacher, Harrisburg, Pa.