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Three Mile Island nuclear plant shuts down unexpectedly
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| September 20, 2012
Posted on 09/20/2012 5:36:47 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
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To: HapaxLegamenon
Oops, guess I’m getting a little long in the tooth!
To: JerseyanExile
In other words, it behaved just like a good little reactor was meant to behave.
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posted on
09/20/2012 6:17:51 PM PDT
by
tomkat
( we used to HANG traitors)
To: meatloaf
“If youre near a PWR when the main steam relief valves lift, I guarantee you will be startled. You feel it through the ground too.”
That’s what the old hands told me!
“Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it second hand, the tuition is less.” Moishe Rosen
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posted on
09/20/2012 6:30:58 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
(Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
To: JerseyanExile
“Give me feed-water, Barney”
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posted on
09/20/2012 6:51:05 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Taranto: "The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog.")
To: JerseyanExile
The greatest harm resulting from the Three Mile Island accident was the psychic angst generated in the worrying class by overwrought press accounts. Remember that this event occured during the Cold War, when a great deal of effort was being devoted to advancing the principle that American nuclear energy in any form was evil while the Soviet Union’s atomic bombs were okey dokey.
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posted on
09/20/2012 6:59:09 PM PDT
by
Elsiejay
To: HapaxLegamenon
I would argue that SL-1 with three dead was the nation’s worst accident.
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posted on
09/20/2012 7:41:13 PM PDT
by
class8601_nuke
(don't just be critical, be prompt critical.)
To: class8601_nuke
Interesting argument - SL-1 vs TMI-2. More dead from SL-1, greater economic loss from TMI-2. Certainly, TMI-2 had a greater impact on the nuclear industry than SL-1 (SL-1 accident lessons - know your shutdown margin and practice good reactivity management). The lessons from TMI-2 were much farther ranging.
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posted on
09/20/2012 8:32:10 PM PDT
by
bagman
To: Col Frank Slade
The Pepsi Syndrome
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posted on
09/20/2012 8:36:27 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
To: bagman
your reasoning is valid, but while TMI-2 may have had more impact on the industry, I always equate loss of human life as more disastrous. Also, lessons learned during clean up of SL-1 facilitated the clean up of TMI-2. All in all, the economic/industrial impacts are out weighed by the deaths (IMHO).
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posted on
09/21/2012 7:06:34 AM PDT
by
class8601_nuke
(don't just be critical, be prompt critical.)
To: bagman
also, another major lesson learned from SL-1 is do not have the ability to (easily) physically man handle your control rods (don’t jerk a stuck rod out of the core) :)
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posted on
09/21/2012 7:10:37 AM PDT
by
class8601_nuke
(don't just be critical, be prompt critical.)
To: dfwgator
Actually it was a large take out 7-UP
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posted on
09/21/2012 7:22:03 AM PDT
by
shotgun
To: JerseyanExile
Allah must be mad at me.
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posted on
09/21/2012 7:27:28 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Support your local Republican candidates. They are our last line of defense.)
To: PJBankard; Real Cynic No More
And even that’s not true.
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posted on
09/21/2012 7:32:10 AM PDT
by
Erasmus
(Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
To: shotgun
Can’t be 7-UP, it’s an uncola.
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posted on
09/21/2012 7:33:32 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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