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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“Now a days nuclear energy is so safe even an an oil rich country like Iran can’t pass it up. “
The point is that most don’t think Iran wants ‘safe’ nuclear energy.
Let me pull out this old chestnut:
“More people died in Ted Kennedy’s car than at Three Mile Island”
And remember how Jane Fonda’s half baked movie about a nuclear meltdown was in theaters at the time of Three Mile Island. The liberals conflated the movie and the Three Mile Island incident to convince us that nuclear power is too dangerous.
I’ve heard no nuclear plants have been built in this country in over 30 years. Due in part to Three Mile Island and the liberals pushing Jane Fonda’s movie as fact.
Ted Kennedy has so many applications; my tagline for example.
zackly right.
There are a couple under construction. "There are now five new nuclear plants under construction in the United States (Watts Bar 2, Summer 2, Summer 3, Vogtle 3, Vogtle 4)." http://www.nei.org/Issues-Policy/New-Nuclear-Energy-Facilities/Building-New-Nuclear-Facilities
Under construction being fairly broadly defined.
The two I was thinking of were Vogtle and Grand Gulf, but I see that Grand Gulf was cancelled again a few years ago.
Let’s say “can be safe”. There are more than one examples where it was not.
I remember when our local coal fired power plant opened in 1979. There was an “open house” and many of the people touring were terrified that the plant might blow up and wipe out NW Arkansas and NE Oklahoma.
Of course, TMI was on everyone’s minds. Our plant supervisor told us NOT to go see it, so we went. So many things they got wrong in the movie!
wasn’t there a rumor that it was started by someone knocking over a Pepsi can?
***Our plant supervisor told us NOT to go see it, ***
The China Syndrome.
never mind... i looked it up... it was an SNL skit: The Pepsi Syndrome...
That still classic SNL skit they show during 40th anniversary show really funny Jimmy Carter end up with African American cleaning lady of Three Mile island play by Garrett Morris
Actually the military has built dozens of them. Every time a sub or aircraft carrier pulls into ports and the girl/boy scouts come down for a tour, they are a few football fields away from a nuclear power plant.
3 mile was no accdent.
According to an engineer friend of mine that worked on the identical plant in Sacramento, someonr had to close a certain valve that would never happen accidentally.
He says it had to be done for advertising Fonada’s movie.
I was 40 miles due north.
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