"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."
Posted on 05/04/2022 4:11:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown in central Pennsylvania was and remains the worst accident of its kind in the United States, but, as a new documentary shows, it could have been so much worse.
In the four-part Netflix docuseries “Meltdown: Three Mile Island,” which debuted Wednesday, May 4, Rick Parks — a former leading engineer at the facility — reveals how cover-ups, falsifications of safety tests and downright dangerous corner-cutting caused the terrifying nuclear event and could have potentially triggered a second, bigger one that would have affected a huge chunk of the Eastern Seaboard.
What Parks found risked America being on “the verge of an apocalypse” capable of triggering “a meltdown that could take out Philadelphia, New York City and Washington, DC,” Tom Devine, of the watchdog group Government Accountability Project, says in the doc.
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My Mother was pregnant with me when this happened.
missed opportunity
"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."
What in the wide wide world of sports is that?
Just “woulda coulda shoulda” BS. Three mile Island did not harm a soul. Like Fukushima, killed nobody but gave the weenies an excuse to wet themselves.
PA Ping!
Government managers typically react to any crisis by first pretending it didn’t happen and then retaliating against anyone who tries to fix the problem.
My dad kept a sign on his door:
Disaster Scorecard
Three Mile Island 0
Chappaquiddick 1
What kind of faggot article is this?
Disaster my ass.
If people understood how massive a polar crane is they’d know a thousand pounds is nothing to pick up.
Our engineers and safety protocols were far more advanced than what happened at Chernobyl.
Dan Aykryod and Garrett Morris in drag?...
Ross Denton: Rodney, can you please tell us, how big is the president?
Rodney Dangerfield: Oh, he’s a big guy, I’ll tell you that, he’s a big guy. I tell you he’s so big, I saw him sitting in the George Washington bridge dangling his feet in the water! He’s a big guy!
Rosalyn Carter: Oh my God! Jimmy! Oh God!
Rodney Dangerfield: Oh, he’s big, I’ll tell you that, boy. He’s so big that when two girls make love to him at the same time, they never meet each other! He’s a big guy, I’ll tell you!
Rosalyn Carter: Oh no! Oh Jimmy! My Jimmy!
Rodney Dangerfield: I don’t want to upset you lady, he’s big, you know what I mean? Why he could have an affair with the Lincoln Tunnel! I mean, he’s really high! He’s big, I’ll tell you! He’s a big guy!
Its always a thrill flying into HIA and banking tightly over TMI.
Pennsylvania Ping!
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Yeah, but then you’re in Harrisburg...
I’d rather fly by Limerick and land at ABE.
Rubbish
No coal, no fossil fuels, and now no nuclear plants.
Winters are going to be very interesting.
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