2,000 residents of the area surrounding Harrisburg, Pennsylvania filed lawsuits
claiming that exposure to radiation from Three Mile Islands Nuclear Disaster caused
health problems including leukemia and other cancers.  The plants owners and
workers acknowledged that radiation released exceeding federal limits, but the
radiation that reached residential areas never exceeded those limits.  A Harrisburg
federal judge as well as the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the lawsuits
to go forward provided proof of injuries caused by radiation released by Three Mile
Island can be produced.