Posted on 03/28/2015 1:35:25 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
It's an anniversary date, but at 36 years it's not one that normally requires the amount of reflection 20, 40 or 50 years after the fact would necessitate.
Still, you can never do too much on it, considering the crisis at Three Mile Island that began in the early morning of March 28, 1979, ranks among the top couple of events to ever affect Harrisburg and the midstate. Its repercussions still are being felt today.
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Three Mile, Chernobyl, Fukishima. Unless you can show me they were safe.
Also the Nuclear Plant At Kalama, Oregon was so poorly made they shut it down & ripped it down. The thing was such a piece of crap the legislature knee jerked outlawing all commercial nuclear plants in Oregon.
I have other duties, sometimes I am called away from what I’m doing. Don’t take it personal:)
Oh, good Lord, where to begin? Three Mile Island was 36 years ago. Fewer people died in Three Mile Island than died in Ted Kennedy's automobile (I worked near Three Mile Island at the time. Hey, guess what! I don't glow in the dark! I'm not dead!). Chernobyl was built by a Communist regime that didn't give a crap about safety, and Fukishima was caused by a tsunami. About the only one of these three you just mentioned that could even remotely be relevant to your original point is Fukishima, and I doubt a nuclear power plant in Kansas would be subject to tsunamis. If you don't want to live near one, don't.
And please, for God's sake, give Three Mile Island a rest!
All.
Nuclear power plant designs have come a long way since your 1970's horror tales.
My original point was “can be safe”. All four of the plants I mentioned were not safe for one reason or another, whether by internal or external causes. The first three had accidents/incidents. The last, the Trojan plant was shut down because it was deemed “unsafe”.
Here in the NW we have brand new bridges being rebuilt because they were found not safe due to shoddy construction.
Bridges can be safe, or not.
I was working on a toxic liquified gas carrier (ship) using the same Foxboro controls they had at Three Mile Island. They were not completely reliable but we were safe because of our operators and redundancy. We were actually considered more dangerous in the damage we could have done and potential people killed than a nuclear plant when we entered port. Our disaster contingency plan showed damage & death rings in miles similar to a nuclear bomb. We were safe, as long as no external force made us unsafe.
“Give Three Mile Island a rest!”
You never give engineering disasters a rest, you learn from them, or not. Can be safe.
Learning from disasters is one thing. Regurgitating a 36-year old disaster and constantly revisiting 1970s stories that have long ago been learned from suggests something else entirely.
As I said, if you wish to cling to the unrealistic notion that nothing has been learned in almost 40 years, be my guest. Enjoy your wind power, or solar panels, or whatever alternative energy source you believe will heat your home.
I prefer safe nuclear power to the alternatives you mentioned.
Or coal.
So, did Japan learn something from TMI?
What have we learned from Fukushima?
Quite a bit
Or coal.
Your state has 7 fossil fuel, 21 hydroelectric, 20 wind farms, 9 biomass, 2 geothermal, and 5 solar power stations.
I doubt you'll ever see a single nuclear power plant in your state.
However, researchers at Oregon State University have designed and are operating the latest technology in nuclear power.
Yes - via stories that keep the meme that nuclear power (being clean, affordable, and pretty dang safe with proper planning and execution) must be eliminated because such power results in too much comfort and freedom for the huddled masses.
Mostly that their current practice is wrong.
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