What happened at three mile island? Do you even know?
How many people died? Zero
How was the environment affected? Not at all.
What were any long term effects to the population? None can ever be correlated to the incident. Very minor release of contamination.
Unit 1 continued operating for 40 years and that one plant which is only 800 megawatt generated as much kw-hrs as every solar thermal and electric production unit in the entire USA during that period.
Yeah Jupiter, I know. Very easy for the govt and NRC to say nothing significant was emitted if they did not use the proper detection gear or check downwind. Pictures of the radiation burns on the girl who had been outside riding her bike, for example, are kind of terrible.
The amount of dead fish that washed ashore was ugly.
The "can you prove this cancer is from X cause" is played out over and over.
The fact they either did not know, or were lying about the extent of the meltdown that day is inexcusable. What they found when they opened the lid showed they were minutes from disaster when it was finally shut down properly...
Same sort of hydrogen bubble that blew Chernobyl a few years later, and they knew it day 1 but hid it. What's the population of Pripyat these 37 years later?
The fact that they did not want to follow safe procedures with the crane even a few years later is mind boggling
The fact it was shown they'd been falsifying radiation emissions reports since day 1 is unsettling
All this from a private energy company, and the government oversight group known as the NRC.
"Trust us, we're not like the others."
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