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Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident happened in 1979: a timeline
PennLive ^ | 28 March A.D. 2024 | Deb Kiner

Posted on 03/28/2024 9:34:43 AM PDT by lightman

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To: TexasGator

“I guess you are “no” on Trump’s email list.”

Is English a second language “To” you? LOL!


21 posted on 03/28/2024 11:26:39 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
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To: boomop1

Nope, no one died. I was working at Brookhaven Lab on Long Island at the time. It was the designated site for emergency response. A fleet of helicopters roared off to 3 mile that morning amid great panic. All agreed the next week it was a nothing burger proving that, despite errors, all the safety procedures worked but it still effectively killed Nuclear Power in this country.


22 posted on 03/28/2024 11:35:24 AM PDT by slorunner
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To: lightman

You forgot to include the most curious part of the timeline...

The fact that only 2 weeks prior to the incident on March 16 1979, predictive programming called “The China Syndrome” was released in theaters to scare the populace before the incident happened.

Coincidence?

You also forgot the last parts of the timeline....

More than 100 nuclear reactors that were planned to be built were scrapped in the years after the incident.

Coincidence?


23 posted on 03/28/2024 12:02:50 PM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: nitzy

Without nuclear generating plants the grid will not be able to sustain the EV push.


24 posted on 03/28/2024 12:08:32 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Red Badger

Nobody died at Three mile Island.
Nobody died at Fukushima (from radiation exposure)!
47 people ( I think, cold be few more or less) died at Chernobyl.

All these three nuclear accidents together killed about one fifth of Americans killed by fentanyl on average day!

Even Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb caused only about 1% rise of cancers in survivors!

Nuclear radiation is pretty natural and pretty safe!


25 posted on 03/28/2024 12:50:36 PM PDT by AZJeep
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To: Red Badger
Compared to Chernobyl and Fukushima that was a nothingburger................

Indeed, but it provided fodder for the purpose-lacking power-seeking Ecogeddon disciples, whose work actually hindered safe form of energy

Nuclear energy, for example, results in 99.9% fewer deaths than brown coal; 99.8% fewer than coal; 99.7% fewer than oil; and 97.6% fewer than gas. Wind and solar are just as safe. - https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

26 posted on 03/28/2024 1:07:47 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: lightman

If you are trying to say that you think the powers that be are going to reverse course and stop tricking the public out of nuclear power and start to convincing them to use it so that EVs can succeed....What makes you think they want EVs to succeed?

Isn’t is much more likely that they just want cheap, reliable gas vehicles to be extremely rare so that the serfs are unable to travel freely?


27 posted on 03/28/2024 1:17:34 PM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: Red Badger

I was part of the group that was sent to TMI to plan the recovery. I ended up as the subcontract administrator for the office building that was built along with also subbing for the guy monitoring the construction of the 200,000 gallon water tank that was needed to process the deionized water during the clean up.


28 posted on 03/28/2024 1:18:44 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: lightman

The evening of March 27, I went to see a movie about some power plant problem - starring Jack Lemon.


29 posted on 03/28/2024 1:20:25 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: lightman

By amazing coincidence, I just happened to finish watching The China Syndrome.

“Give me feedwater, Barney!”


30 posted on 03/28/2024 2:07:53 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("There should have been an age and risk stratification approach." still true)
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31 posted on 03/28/2024 2:16:25 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: boomop1
Back in the day... there was a saying “more people have been killed while in a Kennedy's car than were killed at 3 mile island”.
32 posted on 03/28/2024 2:44:47 PM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: ABN 505

Ditto: that, I am 82 recall it like yesterday.


33 posted on 03/28/2024 3:27:06 PM PDT by boomop1 (term limits NOW)
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To: lightman

The system was shutting itself down and they interrupted and stopped it. If they had left it alone, they would have been fine.


34 posted on 03/28/2024 6:10:51 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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