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The unused cooling towers, shutdown after the 1979 partial meltdown, are seen on Three Mile Island (TMI) in Middletown, Pennsylvania on March 26, 2019. - Forty years after the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, John Garver can still recall the smell and a metallic taste in his mouth."It's time to shut it down," said Garver, a former salesman who was 40 years old when the accident occurred on March 28, 1979 and is now pushing 80."I was against it from the beginning," said Garver, who is retired but works part-time at the Middletown boat club on the banks of the Susquehanna River."I'm against it now and I was hoping in my lifetime that it will close down," he added, gazing from beneath a worn red fisherman's cap at the giant cooling towers spitting out vapor into a cloudless sky."Maybe I'll get my wish."He just might. (Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)