The second crisis was immediately preceded by the accident at the Three-Mile Island nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania in March 1979, which reinvigorated the anti-nuclear movement. With nuclear power - regarded as the main technological bulwark against depletion of the world's oil supplies - suddenly suspect, oil prices doubled again by the year's end.
第二次危机就发生在1979年3月宾西法尼亚州三哩岛核反应堆事故之后。该事故重新激发了反原子能运动。原子能-曾被认为是针对世界石油资源耗尽的主要技术防波堤-突然间受到了怀疑。石油价格在年底再次翻番。