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“What We’d like is about a Twenty-Mile Island”

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Herblock drew the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant as a desert island after a January 1980 report suggested that such plants operate away from population centers. The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant had released radiation into the atmosphere and into the Susquehanna River in 1979, causing initial panic, but no long-lasting damage.