Three Mile Island happened 12 days after the multi-million dollar blockbuster CHINA SYNDROME was released. Then POOF. Result: Nuclear power was sullied and soiled, while devil-we-know oil kept hold and entrenched big oil interests benefitted. Cheney and Rumsfeld were in the White House and had been at power for years. 30 years later, Obama licenses first two new nuclear power plants in 30 years, followed 6 months later by BP GULF OIL disaster. When will you wake up?
none of you guys know anything about this, you guys all have bits and pieces,some are true and the other half are far fetched,bottom line three mile island was not that bad we contained it, i would hate to live anywhere within 700 acres of Chernobyl . 8 million ppl are still exposed to 3-1300 msv a day in their food, on top of ingesting it daily they inhale about 5-700 msv a day, now, for every 500 msv or 5 sv your risk of getting fatal cancer goes...
The water pumps didn't mysteriously stop working. Given conflicting readings caused by a plumbing failure, which caused a small pressure relief valve on TMI's core to open, and fail to close when pressure returned to safe levels, which allowed cooling water to escape from the reactor, and it overheated as a result, management directed the operators to turn off the emergency water pumps, thinking it would save the reactor. The partial meltdown wouldn't have happened had they not shut them off.
Great false scare factor, starting with a mushroom cloud which could never be produced by any foreseeable nuclear power plant accident. Its comparisons like those which have stalled US development of nuclear fission plants for decades.
I don't work with Nuclear stuff or know much about all that for that matter, but I live in the Middletown area (Not too far from TMI), and if you look at the statistics, the cancer rate has gone up in the immediate Middletown area since the TMI accident.
So basically, you don't live anywhere near there, know absolutely nothing about Three Mile Island and in general, you are just a dip-shit. Cancer rates have gone up everywhere, mainly due to diagnosis, and the area around TMI-2 has been under close scrutiny, and guess what? The cancer rate is no higher there than it is anywhere else in the country.
Ok...I've been in Iraq for the past year now, just got home a month ago. I don't exactly know who posted that comment, I'm guessing my little brother. Calm yourself down, you don't have to get all pissy over the internet because of ignorance
Add this one: On September 30, 1999, an accident at a uranium-processing facility in Tokaimura, 70 miles northeast of Tokyo occured. The accident was triggered when the three workers used too much uranium to make fuel and set off an uncontrolled atomic reaction. A total of 439 people, including nearby residents, were believed to have been exposed to radiation. There were two fatalities.
Here is an interesting article to read: aip. org/pt/dec99/toka2. htm
What often happens in accidents is that people deviate from the approved process. This is precisely why nuclear power must be tightly regulated. Any little deviation from procedure can and will cause an accident.
Most pro-nukes deny it all and cite a very low number for the number of people that have gotten sick or died from TMI. They dismiss Wing's study as bad science I think because they don't want to face the truth about the risks of nuclear power.
Actually.. that's kind of impossible considering the radiation release to the public was minimal - recorded at a maximum of 8 mrem (less than that received from an xray). You'd need nearly 1,000 times that in a single dose to sustain any type of minimal acute radiation sickness.
I'm sorry to say, but that information is a bit skewed. If you investigate how a PWR works, you would note that the only coolant lines able to contain radioactive materials are that of the Reactor Coolant System. The cooling towers, which are part of the Secondary Coolant System, do not come in contact with reactor water. The excess water filled the basement pool and overflowed there, not into the closed, secondary loop.
I know very well how a PWR works. What you say is correct in theory, but not what happens in practice. In a failure condition, the primary loop (which is radioactive) can very well and does leak into the secondary (steam). It happens all the time.
Google for "Fact Sheet on Steam Generator Tube Issues" written by NRC
"The NRC places a high priority on ...and the monitoring of water chemistry to detect radiation leaking from the primary to the secondary side of the plant."
The books you are reading are just that - they are not scientific journals, government published documents, or published site findings. They are desgined to sell.. and they will sell the most telling people what they want to hear - that radiation was emitted that could harm their environment. Three Mile Island should be looked at as a success.. without the reactor's extensive safety systems, this accident could have released horrid amounts of radiation. Luckily, our designs worked.
Carolyne, It sounds like you can appreciate the research journal article by Steve Wing, David Richardson, Donna Armstrong, and Douglas Crawford-Brown "A Reevaluation of Cancer Incidence Near the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant: The Collision of Evidence and Assumptions" Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Volume 105, Number 1, January 1997
TMI is not as much of a success as it's been covered up to be.
Also, read President's commission report on TMI: "The chopper reported readings of 1,000 millirems per hour at 7:56 a.m. and 1,200 millirems per hour at 8:01 a.m., 130 feet above the TMI-2 vent stack."
Clearly this is a serious release of radiation. The figure you are quoting has been averaged out over a very large area to appear like a small dose. However, radiation travels like a plume and does not settle down evenly spread out.
I worked in the Nuclear industry at the time. nice coverup
Three Mile Island happened 12 days after the multi-million dollar blockbuster CHINA SYNDROME was released. Then POOF. Result: Nuclear power was sullied and soiled, while devil-we-know oil kept hold and entrenched big oil interests benefitted. Cheney and Rumsfeld were in the White House and had been at power for years. 30 years later, Obama licenses first two new nuclear power plants in 30 years, followed 6 months later by BP GULF OIL disaster. When will you wake up?
33rdPatriot 1 year ago
horrible narration
stupid goofy bullshit
don't give up your day job
cokefueledrage 1 year ago
some people just shouldn't narrate
Doggieman1111 2 years ago
The voice sounds like Jimmy from South Park. Haha.
catfish4975 2 years ago 3
you don't know anything
ethanswish123 2 years ago
none of you guys know anything about this, you guys all have bits and pieces,some are true and the other half are far fetched,bottom line three mile island was not that bad we contained it, i would hate to live anywhere within 700 acres of Chernobyl . 8 million ppl are still exposed to 3-1300 msv a day in their food, on top of ingesting it daily they inhale about 5-700 msv a day, now, for every 500 msv or 5 sv your risk of getting fatal cancer goes...
jimhigginson2000 3 years ago
The water pumps didn't mysteriously stop working. Given conflicting readings caused by a plumbing failure, which caused a small pressure relief valve on TMI's core to open, and fail to close when pressure returned to safe levels, which allowed cooling water to escape from the reactor, and it overheated as a result, management directed the operators to turn off the emergency water pumps, thinking it would save the reactor. The partial meltdown wouldn't have happened had they not shut them off.
namnayr 3 years ago
Great false scare factor, starting with a mushroom cloud which could never be produced by any foreseeable nuclear power plant accident. Its comparisons like those which have stalled US development of nuclear fission plants for decades.
PlanckLimit 3 years ago
If this was a school project I hope you failed for so much incorrect information.
mrtheshaggy 3 years ago
two infamous nuclear accidents WTF?!
Doomroeplayerbg 3 years ago
wow that so hard to understand with the mumbleing* and the monotone voice..
hereosinerror 3 years ago
How many people died and where was that mushroom cloud located? How is this material to the TMI/Chernoble accidents - you sensationalist cocksucker!
Mel7766 3 years ago
chernobyl was in 1986 and three mile islan was in 1979 so how could it be a second chernobyl
ponyboy122 3 years ago 2
Way more fallout
underarmor70 3 years ago
I don't work with Nuclear stuff or know much about all that for that matter, but I live in the Middletown area (Not too far from TMI), and if you look at the statistics, the cancer rate has gone up in the immediate Middletown area since the TMI accident.
Just a little fact.
Balllah91 3 years ago
So basically, you don't live anywhere near there, know absolutely nothing about Three Mile Island and in general, you are just a dip-shit. Cancer rates have gone up everywhere, mainly due to diagnosis, and the area around TMI-2 has been under close scrutiny, and guess what? The cancer rate is no higher there than it is anywhere else in the country.
Just a little fact for you
UKRentor1605 3 years ago
Ok...I've been in Iraq for the past year now, just got home a month ago. I don't exactly know who posted that comment, I'm guessing my little brother. Calm yourself down, you don't have to get all pissy over the internet because of ignorance
Balllah91 3 years ago
Add this one: On September 30, 1999, an accident at a uranium-processing facility in Tokaimura, 70 miles northeast of Tokyo occured. The accident was triggered when the three workers used too much uranium to make fuel and set off an uncontrolled atomic reaction. A total of 439 people, including nearby residents, were believed to have been exposed to radiation. There were two fatalities.
milofonbil 4 years ago
I heard that they were mixing it in buckets. No sympathy really.
jonnygoogoo 4 years ago
Here is an interesting article to read: aip. org/pt/dec99/toka2. htm
What often happens in accidents is that people deviate from the approved process. This is precisely why nuclear power must be tightly regulated. Any little deviation from procedure can and will cause an accident.
HiTekVagabond 4 years ago
hmm. very interesting. i feel bad for them folks that suffered in the chernobly incident. the mutations..illness..the many deaths. it's sad.
jacko39 4 years ago
good soundtrack by the way on this video. is there any way i could find the music of it?
jacko39 4 years ago
I hope you feel the same way with the thousands of victims from Three Mile Island. Many many people are sick today from it. Read Wing's 1997 study.
HiTekVagabond 4 years ago
oh, i do. i live in pa, so for me that is very close to home.
jacko39 4 years ago
Most pro-nukes deny it all and cite a very low number for the number of people that have gotten sick or died from TMI. They dismiss Wing's study as bad science I think because they don't want to face the truth about the risks of nuclear power.
milofonbil 4 years ago
Actually.. that's kind of impossible considering the radiation release to the public was minimal - recorded at a maximum of 8 mrem (less than that received from an xray). You'd need nearly 1,000 times that in a single dose to sustain any type of minimal acute radiation sickness.
sirius51l 4 years ago
Impossible? Readings directly above the reactor stack were pegged at 1200 millirems per hour.
Three Mile Island: Prologue Or Epilogue? -
Page 143
The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island -
Page 202
The Accident at Three Mile Island -
Page 138
milofonbil 4 years ago
I'm sorry to say, but that information is a bit skewed. If you investigate how a PWR works, you would note that the only coolant lines able to contain radioactive materials are that of the Reactor Coolant System. The cooling towers, which are part of the Secondary Coolant System, do not come in contact with reactor water. The excess water filled the basement pool and overflowed there, not into the closed, secondary loop.
sirius51l 4 years ago
I know very well how a PWR works. What you say is correct in theory, but not what happens in practice. In a failure condition, the primary loop (which is radioactive) can very well and does leak into the secondary (steam). It happens all the time.
Google for "Fact Sheet on Steam Generator Tube Issues" written by NRC
"The NRC places a high priority on ...and the monitoring of water chemistry to detect radiation leaking from the primary to the secondary side of the plant."
milofonbil 4 years ago
The books you are reading are just that - they are not scientific journals, government published documents, or published site findings. They are desgined to sell.. and they will sell the most telling people what they want to hear - that radiation was emitted that could harm their environment. Three Mile Island should be looked at as a success.. without the reactor's extensive safety systems, this accident could have released horrid amounts of radiation. Luckily, our designs worked.
sirius51l 4 years ago
Carolyne, It sounds like you can appreciate the research journal article by Steve Wing, David Richardson, Donna Armstrong, and Douglas Crawford-Brown "A Reevaluation of Cancer Incidence Near the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant: The Collision of Evidence and Assumptions" Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Volume 105, Number 1, January 1997
TMI is not as much of a success as it's been covered up to be.
milofonbil 4 years ago
I will be sure to check it out. Thank you for the information.
sirius51l 4 years ago
Also, read President's commission report on TMI: "The chopper reported readings of 1,000 millirems per hour at 7:56 a.m. and 1,200 millirems per hour at 8:01 a.m., 130 feet above the TMI-2 vent stack."
Clearly this is a serious release of radiation. The figure you are quoting has been averaged out over a very large area to appear like a small dose. However, radiation travels like a plume and does not settle down evenly spread out.
I worked in the Nuclear industry at the time. nice coverup
milofonbil 4 years ago
we need to predict what will happen with earthquake...
Templaria 4 years ago
I think this movie is very good.
brenndan1992 4 years ago
It's not a movie and not be understood to under 16.
angeldelalexandre 4 years ago
You're dumb if you think noone under 16 can understand this video.
Imasole 4 years ago