Witness | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/witness/RSS feed for WitnessenThu, 21 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000For Those Living Nearby, the Memory of the Three Mile Island Accident Has a Long Half-Lifehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/robert-reid-mayor-of-nearby-middletown-remembers-three-mile-island-nuclear-accident-180971636/Robert Reid, then the mayor of nearby Middletown, recalls the partial meltdown of the nuclear reactor more than 40 years agoThu, 21 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/robert-reid-mayor-of-nearby-middletown-remembers-three-mile-island-nuclear-accident-180971636/