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The anti-nuclear movement in the United States consists of more than seventy anti-nuclear groups which have acted to oppose nuclear power and/or nuclear weapons in the USA. The movement has delayed construction or halted commitments to build some new nuclear plants.
Anti-nuclear campaigns that captured national public attention in the 1970s involved the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant, Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, and Three Mile Island. More recent campaigning has related to several nuclear power plants, the proposed Yucca Mountain waste repository, the Hanford Site, the Nevada Test Site, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and transportation of nuclear waste from the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Some scientists and engineers have expressed reservations about nuclear power, including: Barry Commoner, S. David Freeman, John Gofman, Amory Lovins, Arjun Makhijani, Gregory Minor and Joseph Romm.
Unit 1 had its license temporarily suspended following the incident at Unit 2. Although the citizens of the three counties surrounding the site voted by a margin of 3:1 to permanently retire Unit 1, it was permitted to resume operations in 1985. General Public Utilities Corporation, the plant's owner, formed General Public Utilities Nuclear Corporation (GPUN) as a new subsidiary to own and operate the company's fleet of nuclear facilities, including Three Mile Island. The plant had previously been operated by Metropolitan Edison Company (Met-Ed), one of GPU's regional utility operating companies. In 1996, General Public Utilities shortened its name to GPU Inc. Three Mile Island Unit 1 was sold to AmerGen Energy Corporation, a joint venture between Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO), and British Energy, in 1998. In 2000, PECO merged with Unicom Corporation to form Exelon Corporation, which acquired British Energy's share of AmerGen in 2003. Today, AmerGen LLC is a fully owned subsidiary of Exelon Generation and owns TMI Unit 1, Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, and Clinton Power Station. These three units, in addition to Exelon's other nuclear units, are operated by Exelon Nuclear Inc., an Exelon subsidiary.
General Public Utilities was legally obliged to continue to maintain and monitor the site, and therefore retained ownership of Unit 2 when Unit 1 was sold to AmerGen in 1998. GPU Inc. was acquired by First Energy Corporation in 2001, and subsequently dissolved. First Energy then contracted out the maintenance and administration of Unit 2 to AmerGen. Unit 2 has been administered by Exelon Nuclear since 2003, when Exelon Nuclear's parent company, Exelon, bought out the remaining shares of AmerGen, inheriting First Energy's maintenance contract. Unit 2 continues to be licensed and regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a condition known as Post Defueling Monitored Storage (PDMS).
Today, the TMI-2 reactor is permanently shut down and defueled, with the reactor coolant system drained, the radioactive water decontaminated and evaporated, radioactive waste shipped off-site to a disposal site, reactor fuel and core debris shipped off-site to a Department of Energy facility, and the remainder of the site being monitored. The owner says it will keep the facility in long-term, monitored storage until the operating license for the TMI-1 plant expires at which time both plants will be decommissioned. TMI-1's current license expires in 2014. On January 8, 2008, AmerGen Energy Corporation, the operator of TMI-1, submitted a license renewal application to the NRC. If the license is renewed, TMI-1's license will be extended to 2034.
The China Syndrome is a 1979 thriller film which tells the story of a reporter and cameraman who discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant. It stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Richard Herd, and Wilford Brimley.
The movie was written by Mike Gray, T.S. Cook and James Bridges. It was directed by Bridges.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Lemmon), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Fonda), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (George Jenkins, Arthur Jeph Parker) and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. The film was also nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and Lemmon won Best Actor for his performance. The movie's script won the 1980 Writers Guild of America award.
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The Three Mile Island Accident (Part 3)by thefilmarchive3,218 views
Groovy hair and threads btw XD
crazeeborg 4 months ago
Brings back memories. I was a kid in Jersey when the partial meltdown occurred. I recall watching that movie "The China Syndrom". It's strange that It was released in theatres 12 before the 3 mile Island accident. There was even a line in the film in reference to a "china syndrom" meltdown that compared the scale of destruction as being equivalent to the state of Pennsylvania lol.
crazeeborg 4 months ago
Wow, Look at that 70"s hair style. See whats up with Diablo Nuclear power plant. April 16, 2011.
superpencil007 10 months ago
@Leon112006 His name's Randy King. I'll see if I can find out more about him...
manonthemoo 11 months ago
can anyone tell me who the man is in the video the one with the mu stash.
Leon112006 11 months ago
Funny You Say May...But this is March..John.Belushi Is Dead...And Randy Rhoads Was Flying High Again!..A Little Gap I'd Say.
BarryPuppetSoetoro61 11 months ago
As usual this event occurred because of right wing degenerate big business Republican mentalities. These people believe that money is more important than human beings and the earth. Such people have caused nothing but one evil.war or terrible disaster after another throughout human history. What a bunch of degenerate scum. I hope for the day when god removes all their kind from the earth.
heartfire451 11 months ago
No one can deny that nuclear power always has a risk. And even if it's a small risk, if something did go wrong you'd see a whole region becoming uninhabitable for a few centuries.
TheRealDinner 11 months ago
The whole Nuclear power has always played on my mind and good and bad, its a very human thing, its wild.
So i think its fine to use personally.
mercedesE320fan 11 months ago
I didn't know they tryed postponing the plant I get power from, the seabrook station!
IpH0n3BIACH 1 year ago