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It's late afternoon on March 28, 1979.

Gary Miller hurries up a marble staircase underneath a gold potunda.

He climbs higher up the stairs and gays across the lobby of Pennsylvania State Capitol building.

Today, the Capitol is swarming with reporters.

Their voices echo off the walls and Miller can hear them gossiping about one subject and one subject alone.

The incident at Three Mile Island.

Miller shakes his head.

He's the supervisor of the nearby nuclear power plant, and he knows he needs to keep a straight face with so many journalists nearby.

But inside, he's fuming. He shouldn't even be here right now. He's been dealing with high radiation levels in a nuclear core that may have been damaged.

Miller needs to be back at his post, managing the crisis, not here.

But he wasn't allowed to stay at the plant.

Not after he received orders from his boss, Jack Herbine, who demanded that Miller attend a meeting with Lieutenant Governor to explain what exactly is happening at Three Mile Island.

Miller walks through a hallway and follows Herbine into Bill's Grantons office.

The room is packed with attorneys and scientific experts all standing with grim expressions.

And in the middle of this circle sits Granton.

Miller feels shaky when he sees the Lieutenant Governor surrounded by some of the most powerful people in the state.

Yet right now, Miller's goal is simple. He needs to quickly update Granton about the incident and then get back to the plant and stop the growing crisis.

Miller shuts a heavy wooden door and turns back to Scranton.

The other men in the room go quiet. And part to the sides of the room has Scranton approaches Miller and Herbine with a look of fury.

So I've learned that you've been airing out the plant.

I've got press asking me if you all are just fanning out radiation across Pennsylvania.

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