The accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania on March 28,1979, was "the single most important event in the fifty-year history of nuclear power regulation in the United States," says J. Samuel Walker. Many critics of nuclear power point to the accident as a turning point for the industry, noting that no new plants have since been ordered in the United States and that many planned in prior years were subsequently canceled. Walker provides a gripping, detailed account of the accident and an analysis of its impact and significance in Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. It is his fourth book as the official historian of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). In the preface Walker assures readers that he had complete independence as the author and that the NRC placed no restrictions on what he could say. However, Walker provides an historical account of the events; he does not evaluate the performance of the NRC during those events.
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机译：塞缪尔·沃克（J. Samuel Walker）说，1979年3月28日在宾夕法尼亚州的三哩岛核电站发生的事故是“美国核电监管五十年历史中最重要的事件”。许多对核电的批评者指出，事故是核工业的转折点，并指出，此后美国没有再订购任何新工厂，随后取消了先前计划的许多工厂。沃克对事故进行了详尽而详尽的描述，并分析了其在《三英里岛：历史视角下的核危机》中的影响和意义。这是他作为美国核监管委员会（NRC）的官方历史学家的第四本书。沃克在序言中向读者保证，他作为作者具有完全的独立性，而且NRC对他的发言没有任何限制。但是，沃克提供了事件的历史记录。他没有评估这些事件期间NRC的表现。
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