Joe Shmoe Explains Three Mile Island

[33rdPatriot]

Three Mile Island happened 12 days after the multi-million dollar blockbuster CHINA SYNDROME was released. Mega stars, mega marketing. 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?

[jhhodges]

She's 11 now, and an actress!

[WeatherMondacicci]

Threee Maahl Ahhland, lol!! I forgot to tell you that your granddaughter is very cute and beautiful, how old is she now?

[WeatherMondacicci]

jhhodges, do you work at Three Mile Island? Just asking out of curiousity. BTW, I would love to have a bedtime story like this as a kid. Yeah, I got Asperger's Disorder so this kind of stuff is interesting to me.

[jhhodges]

I work at STP - it's a great place for sure - my daughter helped me on this one.

[WeatherMondacicci]

@jhhodges What is STP? Sorry, I'm not in the nuclear industry, lol. I wish I had some good math skills because I like the sciences so much, I am intrigued by things such as nuclear energy and understand the basics of it. I have Asperger's Disorder so I get interested in this stuff. Is it true that nuclear energy is thus, so far the cleanest source of energy? What kind of math skills and what does it take to work in a nuclear power plant? Especially to work in the control room?

[WeatherMondacicci]

I had to fav this because I just love the voice of Joe Schmo, plus this was pretty comical

[jhhodges]

thanks

[modifyd19]

Great Job!!1

[bigbluecrane5]

lol i totally forgot about this its so funny

[hootinouts]

LMAO.

This is a riot.

Shmoe, you're a classic!

[macdonaldjohnd]

Is that what Homer Simpson did on his Job?

[albionsseed]

Nice job! I'm pretty sure that every SRO, RO and PEO in the world has studied the timeline and chain of events during this event. When I first read the timeline I was amazed at how quickly the s**t hits the fan when things first started to go south.

Thank God for nuke Navy training and discipline in US commercial nuclear power!

[3milesmile]

I am at TMI right now. Help me!!!!!

[TobblAA]

Quite funny, and the engineers truely didn't know what to do. But meltdown within 1 minute is wrong information, that takes 3 hours.

[bigbluecrane]

lol when joe said i don't think this is not going to be a good day oh i think i got to go to the bathroom

[technfreak1]

This dude is so funny

[Vooba]

Sounds like barney

[gsxjimg]

You know, that High pressure relief valve was a known leaker. It wasn't stuck open, it just started leaking more than it had in the past It should have been repaired many months before. I saw the file when I was at INEL on the S5G

[Scottiepig]

my mom grew up there and had 2 evacuate.

[bcriswell]

Excellent and fun explanation of Three Mile Island. Thoroughly enjoyable, especially by those that understand the jargon.