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FILE - In this undated file photo, a Pennsylvania state police officer and plant security guards stand outside the closed front gate to the Metropolitan Edison nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa., after the plant was shut down following a partial meltdown on March 28, 1979. Exelon Corp., the owner of Three Mile Island, said Monday, May 29, 2017 it will shut down the plant in 2019 without a financial rescue from Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File)

AP WAS THERE: Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident

By BOB DVORCHAK and HARRY F. ROSENTHAL - Associated Press

FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2017, AT 3:01 A.M. EST.- This photo taken Feb. 28, 2017, shows Exelon Corporation Three Mile Island nuclear generating station spokesman Ralph DeSantis, left,who is retiring after 38 years on the job. With him is new TMI spokesman Dave Marcheskie. DeSantis has been with TMI since the 1979 partial meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor. It's been 38 years now, but the long legacy of the March 1979 partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant lingers to this day. (Dan Gleiter /PennLive.com via AP)

Three Mile Island accident changed his entire life

By JOHN LUCIEW and PennLive.com - Associated Press