Three Mile Island anniversary

Yesterday - March 28 - marked the 38th anniversary of the Three Mile Island accident, the event that had a significant impact for the better on nuclear safety in the United States. Here are two contemporary magazine covers: one from Time and the other from the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel. The cover titles are essentially the same for each: Nuclear Nightmare.

Alptraum Atomkraft - Nuclear Nightmare: after the reactor catastrophe in Harrisburg

L'atome pousse!

Not sure I get this one! But the one kid is lots of fun and the other has a great voice.

Triga Reactors - an atomic future

Postcard with first day cancellation of atomic energy conference in Geneva in 1958. Card reproduces poster by Swiss modernist Eric Nitscho for General Dynamics’ Triga reactor: “an inherently safe training, research, isotope production reactor designed and manufactured by the General Atomic Division of the General Dynamics Corporation.”