A program on Three Mile Island (TMI) will be presented on Friday, March 28, at 7 p.m. at Christ Church United Church of Christ, 247 S. Market St., Elizabethtown.

David J. Allard will present "TMI: Past, Present and Future." Topics will include radiation protection standards and regulations; the March 1979 accident at TMI Unit 2, including communication failures and response and recovery; off-site public radiation dose and potential public health impact; post-accident monitoring of the public for radiation exposure and effects; a major class-action legal court case; and psychological impact on the community. The presentation will also discuss the restart of Unit 1 in the mid-1980s and the current work toward restarting it again; low-level radioactive waste that would be generated during operations; current cleanup and decommissioning of Unit 2; ongoing radiological environmental surveillance; the concerns related to on-site spent nuclear fuel storage, transport, and disposal; and the future of nuclear power.

Allard is a medical health physicist who has built experience in the field of radiation protection for more than 47 years; he is an internationally recognized expert. After nearly 24 years of public service, in July 2022, he retired from his position as the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's director of the Bureau of Radiation Protection. He is the chairperson of the TMI-2 Community Advisory Panel.