DC Partner Jay Silberg, former U.S. Atomic Energy Commission lawyer who also represented the owners and operators of the Three Mile Island (TMI) reactors after the TMI-2 accident, and London partner George Borovas, leader of Pillsbury's international nuclear projects team and former chemical engineer, draw from the lessons learned in the TMI nuclear accident and the subsequent changes implemented throughout the nuclear energy sector to offer insights into what will likely happen next in Japan and the global nuclear industry as the situation stabilizes. This article originally appeared in the April 2011 issue of McCloskey Nuclear Business.