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Robert Del Tredici is a Canadian photographer, artist, and activist, who documented the impact of the 1979
Three Mile Island accident The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island, Unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor in Pennsylvania, United States. It began at 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979. It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclea ...
on the community. His first book of photographs and interviews, ''The People of Three Mile Island'' (
Sierra Club Books Sierra Club Books was the publishing division, for both adults and children, of the Sierra Club, founded in by then club President David Brower. They were a United States publishing company located in San Francisco, California with a concentrat ...
, 1980), was a social critique of
nuclear power Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion reactions. Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced b ...
. His second book, ''Slaves At Work in the Fields'' (Harper & Row, 1987), discussed the US
nuclear weapons A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb ...
industry and won the 1987 Olive Branch Book Award for its contribution to world peace. He founded th
Atomic Photographers Guild
in 1987 along with photographers Carole Gallagher and Harris Fogel. Del Tredici has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, and a Master of Arts in Comparative Literature. For many years he taught Photography and the History of Animated Film at
Concordia University Concordia University ( French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t ...
in Montreal, and he previously taught at
Vanier College Vanier College ( French: ''Collège Vanier'') is an English-language public college located in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1970 as the second English-language public college of Quebec's public colle ...
.Photographer captured impact of TMI accident on community
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See also

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Anti-nuclear movement in Canada Canada has an active anti-nuclear movement, which includes major campaigning organisations like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club. Over 300 public interest groups across Canada have endorsed the mandate of the Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout (CNP). Som ...
* Kenji Higuchi *'' Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective'' *'' Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown'' *
Three Mile Island accident health effects The domino effects of the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident are widely agreed to be very low by scientists in the relevant fields. The American Nuclear Society concluded that average local radiation exposure was equivalent to a chest X-ray ...
* James Acord


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