In April 1979 , Sternglass was invited to testify to Congressional hearings on the Three Mile Island accident . Two days later , when the hearings were moved from the House to the Senate , he was told his testimony was no longer desired . Sternglass believed that an effort was being made to suppress any evidence about possible deaths as a result of the accident . In a paper presented at an engineering and architecture congress , Sternglass argued that an excess of 430 infant deaths in the U.S. northeast that summer could largely be attributed to Three Mile Island radiation releases . This led some writers on environmental issues to claim that he had proven that figure as a '' minimum ''
Three Mile Island accident
Three Mile Island accident
Ernest J. Sternglass