Three Mile Island/2007

Many have forgotten the "EVENT" at TMI, here is what it looks like today. Ironically, Unit 2 at TMI, which is still running, has one of the best safety records in the world for nuclear power plants.......

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[HiTekVagabond]

Nuclear Power - one of the most complicated ways to boil water.

[milofonbil]

Actually, converting heat to kinetic energy is only about 30% efficient. It is a fundamental limitation of the carnot cycle.

Yes, the nuclear fission is thousands times more energetic than the chemical reaction of burning coal. However, nuclear power does have a serious problem with its waste products, which remain radioactive for 450,000 years or more. Nuclear power has severe problems when it is not in control. It is a risk for us and the waste is a legacy for thousands of generations.

[JlkJlk18000]

@HiTekVagabond not really complicated... the fuel rods get hot because they are radioactive it heats we get power and charlie sheen wins... simple... the hard part it keeping it from going haywire and melting the core... so they use graphite rods to control the heat... like a heat sink for your computer... problem is keeping those rods from heating to the point of explosion...

[33rdPatriot]

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?

[codyboy1996]

stop duing polution fuck

[shreehanbrighteyes12]

TMI Reactor 1 is still operational, But Reactor 2 is Inoperational due to the events of the meltdown in '79. The core in Reactor 2 has been removed. But is still in commissioned status. TMI-1 renewed its license in 2009 for till April 2034. The generator for TMI-2 is in the process of being removed to be used at the Shearon Harris Facility in New Hill North Carolina.

[hyperbob101]

booo i hate bnuclear energy although it powers like 95% of all our power idc booo

[KSE828]

Such a good show!

[alter656667]

Are the 2 on the left in use?

[milofonbil]

Nonsense. Of course China syndrome can happen. Albeit the probability is very low. The first and second generation were not designed to prevent the molten reactor fuel from pooling in the bottom of the reactor after a core meltdown.

in TMI, the core only had a partial meltdown. The reactor vessel was not breached on the bottom.

See the Wikipedia article "Nuclear meltdown"

[milofonbil]

Chernobyl did have a steel containment. They felt it could be thinner because it was much larger. Chernobyl was built very much like a plutonium production reactor.

At TMI Hundreds of thousands of gallons of radioactive water were dumped into the Susquehanna river. Radioactive gas was released into the atmosphere and detected as far away as Albany.

Containment vessels work during normal operation. No containment used today can hold an explosion like Chernobyl had.