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"It's all baloney!!!"

One of my lifelong friends (I started kintergarden with him in 1941) is an electrical engineer working for SMUD and was working with the Rancho Seco nuke plant and when 3 Mile Island happened he told me that the only way that it could have happened is that someone had to have manually shut off a certain valve and couldn't have possibly have been an accident, that he was certain that it was sabatoge. The Rancho Seco plant was a direct copy of 3 Mile Island.

My personal estimation is that it was timed to go along with the nuke horror film that came out immediatly after and that Fonda and Hayden were right in the middle of it.

Durring that period Fonda and Hayden ran a training camp for commie subversivies in the Santa Monica mountains with armed guards.

Man!!! What a beautiful reply and condensation of the FACTS or HISTORY!!! The sabotage idea can't be proven, but it is obviously terribly strong, given all the coordinated circumstances that you so rightly reviewed for all of us!

Thank you dalereed! I knew you were a great Freeper when I saw you on TV against Clinton speaking!

As I recall the TMI scenario (I was an engineer at Diablo Canyon at that time), the pressurizer lost pressure, causing the water in the presurizer level delta-P transmitter reference leg to boil. That caused the presurizer level indicator in the control room to go UP, not down, misleading the operators to back off on the charging pumps.

It was a simple design problem, not sabotage.