Probably deserves a re-investigation
Author’s name is Rod. Excellent.
The fact that the movie “China Syndrome” came out about that time had nothing to do it. The greenies wouldn’t sabotage a nuke plant to advance their agenda would they?
Pinging some who posted to Fukushima articles
LPCI check
Sorry. It's not even worth reading.
Given that it happened just as JANE FONDA was coming out with the ‘China Syndrome’, it does look very suspicious. Why would anybody just turn off the water valves?
Two words: Reactor Operator. Too fixated on one indicator (Pressurizer Level). Manually overrode safety functions, not once, not twice, but three specific times to come withing 20 minutes of a ‘meltdown.’ Saved, in the end by the designers, who pointed tolerances on metallurgical equations in the most conservative directions so that the core actually ‘slumped’ away from a focused pool of mass. Stupid design. Compared to most pressurized water nuclear reactors, TMI’s control/surge volume was tiny. Like trying to steer an 18-wheeler with tricycle handlebars. Shoddy construction - paraphrasing their own testimony, unit 1 was like a Mercedes Benz, Unit 2 was a ‘59 Rambler. Net result to local population? same radiation exposure as a flight to Denver. Catastrophe compounded by the governor, who as a DOJ attorney wrote a well-received report stating that the Federal Government should exacerbate small disasters to make them bigger and test population effects. One of the things he suggested in the report was a gag order so the press could only speculate. So guess what Dick Thornton did as Governor of Pennsylvania? Yep - a gag order. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose! (The more things change, the more they stay the same...)
TMI Ping.
Interesting reading, but way beyond my technical pay-grade. Yes, I remember “China Syndrome”. Who knew TMI would follow that flick so closely?