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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

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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To: PAR35

Still big suckers.

http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/New-Plants/AP1000-PWR

My theory is that if nuclear power was able to progress here like in other countries the reactors and powerplants would be dozens of times more safe, several times more powerful, and about the size of a large house.


21 posted on 03/28/2015 2:33:20 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Jane Fonda’s spread so much misery in our country...


22 posted on 03/28/2015 2:33:29 PM PDT by GOPJ (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist. - Freeper RipSawyer)
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To: Kid Shelleen

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Lots of Babcock and Wilcox plants have been de-commissioned since then.
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23 posted on 03/28/2015 2:34:54 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: eddie willers

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How many of the on-duty staff when that reactor failed are still alive today?

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24 posted on 03/28/2015 2:37:10 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

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>> “Due in part to Three Mile Island” <<

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Due is larger part to Chernoble.
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25 posted on 03/28/2015 2:38:49 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Three Mile Island was propaganda.. AND STILL IS....


26 posted on 03/28/2015 2:41:23 PM PDT by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: latina4dubya

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One more reason to drink Coke instead!

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27 posted on 03/28/2015 2:42:09 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Kid Shelleen

it was a success

the system shut down


28 posted on 03/28/2015 2:43:39 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Kid Shelleen

GPU, General Public Utilities. Patient investors made a fortune buying low and holding.


29 posted on 03/28/2015 2:44:12 PM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: SevenofNine

"Hi, everybody. As First Lady, I'd like to say I have nothing against nuclear power, honey. It's the best thing that ever happened to me."

30 posted on 03/28/2015 2:44:31 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kid Shelleen
Does the word doobie give you a hint?
31 posted on 03/28/2015 2:52:13 PM PDT by kitchen (Though much is taken, much abides; ...)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Wolf Creek, KS was started in 1977 and came online in ‘85.


32 posted on 03/28/2015 3:02:06 PM PDT by david665
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To: dfwgator

Yup that one and Dan Arckyrd play Jimmy Carter that is funny skit


33 posted on 03/28/2015 3:34:07 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Cold Heart
Let’s say “can be safe”. There are more than one examples where it was not.

Since you posted and ran, do enlighten us.

34 posted on 03/28/2015 3:37:05 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
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To: Kid Shelleen
No one died at Three Mile Island.

No one.

No public property was destroyed or rendered unusable.

None.

Repeated studies have shown no long-term health effects of the TMI incident whatsoever.

Not a one.

TMI wasn't even a disaster, let alone the cataclysm the bunny-huggers would have you believe it was.

35 posted on 03/28/2015 3:56:53 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: dalereed

So it was sabotage? How did no one ever get charged?


36 posted on 03/28/2015 5:09:06 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway

Apparently they never found out who did it.

The media beinng 100% anti nuke didn’t help.


37 posted on 03/28/2015 5:23:00 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: SevenofNine

I busted a gut when they actually had Rodney Dangerfield come out to explain just how big the President was..

“I tell, he’s a big guy! Real big. He could make love to the Lincoln Tunnel. I tell ya he’s so big (pulls necktie).”


38 posted on 03/28/2015 5:29:41 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: Alas Babylon!

I remember that I think you could find that episode on Amazon or Hulu or one of streaming network


39 posted on 03/28/2015 5:34:31 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

I still have hope for low cost (comparatively) pebble bed reactors.


40 posted on 03/28/2015 6:11:13 PM PDT by PAR35
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