The Hope Creek Incident

Following the meltdown in Chernobyl, nuclear power plants were a major source of contention, with the dangers of them being grown around every time a new one was built. The same was said of the Hope Creek Station in New Jersey, especially when it was turned on not but months after Chernobyl. So when there was a nearly undetectable leak in the containment building of the reactor for over three years, it was carefully buried by the government. It's unknown exactly how many people were affected by this radioactive leak, whether it was just the local community, or maybe radioactive steam travelled further, or maybe the fish of the Delaware River were contaminated.