The incident at Browns Ferry, Alabama began when a candle flame accidentally began a fire that went out of control, leading to a near melt down in what was then the largest nuclear power plant in the US. Three Mile Island and Chernobyl would not have been a surprise if you had seen "Incident..." Westinghouse tried to get public TV stations not to air this investigative documentary when it aired. A few months later it won the prestigious DuPont Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award, the "Pulitzer Prize of TV journalism."