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Three Mile Island: 36 years ago, the accident few had planned for
PennLive ^ | 03/28/2015 | Paul Vigna

Posted on 03/28/2015 1:35:25 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

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To: COBOL2Java

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:)


41 posted on 03/28/2015 6:55:54 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart
Three Mile, Chernobyl, Fukishima.

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!

42 posted on 03/28/2015 7:12:11 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
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All.


43 posted on 03/28/2015 7:22:10 PM PDT by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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To: Cold Heart
Oh, and the Kalama, Oregon nuclear power plant you mentioned? I looked it up. Construction began on February 1, 1970 - over three years before even your frightening Three Mile Island Unit 1 first came online. Seems quite a stretch to haul out stories about a nuclear power plant built that long ago (Hey, Chernobyl was built in 1977!).

Nuclear power plant designs have come a long way since your 1970's horror tales.

44 posted on 03/28/2015 7:23:33 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
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To: COBOL2Java

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.


45 posted on 03/28/2015 7:52:55 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart
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.

46 posted on 03/28/2015 8:09:05 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
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To: COBOL2Java

I prefer safe nuclear power to the alternatives you mentioned.
Or coal.


47 posted on 03/28/2015 8:12:59 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: COBOL2Java

So, did Japan learn something from TMI?

What have we learned from Fukushima?


48 posted on 03/28/2015 8:13:34 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Quite a bit


49 posted on 03/28/2015 8:15:50 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
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To: Cold Heart
I prefer safe nuclear power to the alternatives you mentioned.

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.

50 posted on 03/28/2015 8:23:00 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
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To: COBOL2Java
I doubt it too because they outlawed commercial nuclear plants. They are also outlawing coal plants. Oregon is politically & officially nuts.

However, researchers at Oregon State University have designed and are operating the latest technology in nuclear power.

51 posted on 03/28/2015 8:35:38 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Kid Shelleen
Its repercussions still are being felt today.

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.

52 posted on 03/29/2015 3:36:15 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: COBOL2Java

Mostly that their current practice is wrong.


53 posted on 03/29/2015 6:09:43 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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