Didn’t William Stryker keep his captive mutants on Three Mile Island in that last X-Men movie?
But seriously, yes I am familiar with Three Mile Island and the incident that occured there. I have family near Harrisburg. I’m well under 40.
ETA: llcoolbj77 got the Stryker comment in way before me. Dang.
I’m 29, and remember it from The Simpsons, among other sources.
I am 25, and yes. I saw this great documentary about it when I was a kid (and still living in the Midwest). One of my favorite movies around that age - not sure if it was before or after I knew about Three Mile - was The China Syndrome (film about nuclear power/accidents which happened to be released like the week before the Three Mile accident). I’ve always been interested in history so I have a working knowledge of most such events.
I’ve lived in Lewisburg, PA which is only about an hour from the site, and now I live about two hours away in the Philly burbs.
That’s the one where Jane Fonda drilled through the center of the earth, right?
Yes, I learned about it in high school. I’m 22.
Yes, I’m 27 and I know about the incident. I probably heard about it the first time by watching that sketch that Garrett Morris was in on SNL, where he went in as the cleaning lady and got turned into a fifty-foot-tall woman that fell in love with Dan Ackroyd’s fifty-foot-tall Jimmy Carter.
(Oddly, when I googled the phrase “garret morris three mile island skit” to refresh my memory, the first link was this archived thread!)
I was thinking of that SNL skit. They also did one that was a parody of a sitcom, called The Nuclear Family.
I’m 27 and Yes I know about the incident.
30, yes.
32 and I even knew it was in PA.
29, from Ireland. I’ve heard about it mainly through US pop culture, Simpsons, The Far Side etc. Chernobyl was a much bigger thing in my head than Three Mile Island.
I’m 24, and yup. I don’t know everything specifically, but I have a vague idea of what went on.
I’m 34 and I know quite a bit about it, but that might not count because nuclear power is a pet interest of mine.
Um…I’ve always been under the apparently mistaken impression that it was a near miss. (I was almost two at the time of the accident.) So, while I’ve heard of it, obviously I haven’t heard enough about it.
Early 20s, yes.
Mid-20s, yes, but I grew up in PA.
21, I know about it, but I’m a bit sketchy on the details, I mostly know that it had some really bad failures, but ultimately was harmless, and that it caused a lot of panic. I also place it in New York for some odd reason, I knew it was somewhere in PA, but it would take me a while to remember that fact.
I don’t think we learned about it in school, but I’m not sure how I came across the information, likely something to do with looking up Chernobyl for whatever idle curiosity I wanted to satisfy at some point.
ETA: Though I do recall some teachers mentioning it offhand in school. Not “let’s learn about TMI” so much as it being presented like we should already know what it is, kind of like “You know Three Mile Island? It was like that.” So there’s that at least.
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30 here, and yes, I was well aware of TMI before Fukushima.
Unlike everybody else that mentally filed TMI in New York, I have always placed it in New Jersey. No clue as to why that might be.