Ron Fountain knows what the Japanese nuke plant workers are going through. He's been there. Fountain talks to Tony Dokoupil about how he escaped the Three Mile Island disaster alive.
As dawn broke over Sun City, Arizona, Ron Fountain leaned forward in his favorite chair and prayed for men he'd never met. He was watching televised coverage of the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, one of Japan's tsunami-stricken nuclear plants. He had no idea of the identity of the 50 employees risking their lives trying desperately to stave off a complete meltdown. But the 72-year-old Fountain felt a personal connection to the men. After all, he had once been in their shoes.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Human Fallout for Japan
Thirty-two years ago this month, the world's first nuclear nightmare unfolded on a spit of land in Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River. Unlike Japan's crisis, America's Three Mile Island meltdown was a manmade event,...
As dawn broke over Sun City, Arizona, Ron Fountain leaned forward in his favorite chair and prayed for men he'd never met. He was watching televised coverage of the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, one of Japan's tsunami-stricken nuclear plants. He had no idea of the identity of the 50 employees risking their lives trying desperately to stave off a complete meltdown. But the 72-year-old Fountain felt a personal connection to the men. After all, he had once been in their shoes.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Human Fallout for Japan
Thirty-two years ago this month, the world's first nuclear nightmare unfolded on a spit of land in Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River. Unlike Japan's crisis, America's Three Mile Island meltdown was a manmade event,...
- 3/18/2011
- by Tony Dokoupil
- The Daily Beast
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