Three-Mile Island Incident
When Reactor 2 at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, suffered a partial meltdown on March 28, 1979, the Christic Institute legal team was called in to help oversee the legal proceedings and represent victims of the disaster.
The team filed an injunction and stopped the Three Mile Island Corporation from dumping all the radioactive waste from the meltdown into the Susquehanna River, thereby safeguarding residents living downstream, and preventing an estimated 50,000 cancer-related deaths.