Happy TMI day!

[tw1164]

I didn't live in the area at the time, but its nice to know that if something would happen again I would die quickly.


TMI Meltdown

 

[Safeway]

 

[cKGunslinger]

You didn't leave there, eh? Ewww, TMI!

 

[tw1164]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
You didn't leave there, eh? Ewww, TMI!

I fixed my op

 

[Tiamat]

an excellent reminder of what happens when safety considerations are not carefully thought out and engineered into the design and instead being a design afterthought.

 

[BlancoNino]

There was Too Much Information in that article for me to finish reading it.

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: Safeway

What's the rose for?

"The Three Mile Island accident was the worst accident in American commercial nuclear power generating history, even though it led to no deaths or injuries to plant workers or members of the nearby community."

 

[Minjin]

I water ski right next to TMI. You just have to watch out for the three eyed fish...

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
There was Too Much Information in that article for me to finish reading it.

 

[WT]

I remember we were dismissed early from school, and I got home and Mom had the suitcases on the bed and told me to gather my valuables. To me, that was my baseball card collection so she nixed that idea. I was much more upset when she said we'd be leaving all of our pets behind, but we stayed and waited it out. Thornburgh had announced to radio stations that he was going to issue an evacuation to all surrounding towns but the announcement was postponed twice, then finally canceled after Carter announced he was coming on-site personally to see the damage.

 

[blackdogdeek]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: Safeway

What's the rose for?

"The Three Mile Island accident was the worst accident in American commercial nuclear power generating history, even though it led to no deaths or injuries to plant workers or members of the nearby community."

it's possibly for the demise of the public perception of nuclear power.

 

[mooglekit]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek

Originally posted by: BlancoNino

Originally posted by: Safeway

What's the rose for?

"The Three Mile Island accident was the worst accident in American commercial nuclear power generating history, even though it led to no deaths or injuries to plant workers or members of the nearby community."

it's possibly for the demise of the public perception of nuclear power.

Sounds good to me...it's a waste that we can't just get over irrational fears and take advantage of a relatively clean, dependable and cheap form of energy. And to appease the greenies out there, just think how much pollution we could eliminate by replacing each and every coal or gas fired power plant in the US with a relatively smaller number of nuclear power plants.

 

[RiverDog]

Surprised. It sounds like a lot of ATOT"ers live near here. I lived in western Pa at the time and now about 30 miles away. I remember thinking if that thing went I was just going to head west.

 

[pennylane]

Originally posted by: TuxDave

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
There was Too Much Information in that article for me to finish reading it.

 

[JDub02]

Not really as bad as everyone thought. :thumbsup: for nuclear power.

 

[BoomerD]

I was working at Hanford building another B&W nook-u-lur reactor when that happened. REALLY made people rethink the concept of nukes...Unfortunately, too many freaked out and the industry has nearly died out, because of the NIMBY attitudes of Americans.

BTW, TMI WAS much worse than we were ever toldat the time, probably to avert panic...it just never became a Chernobyl-level accident.

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html

"Because adequate cooling was not available, the nuclear fuel overheated to the point at which the zirconium cladding (the long metal tubes which hold the nuclear fuel pellets) ruptured and the fuel pellets began to melt. It was later found that about one-half of the core melted during the early stages of the accident. Although the TMI-2 plant suffered a severe core meltdown, the most dangerous kind of nuclear power accident, it did not produce the worst-case consequences that reactor experts had long feared. In a worst-case accident, the melting of nuclear fuel would lead to a breach of the walls of the containment building and release massive quantities of radiation to the environment. But this did not occur as a result of the Three Mile Island accident."

In all, due mostly to human error, TMI was a huge disaster, but in part due to construction standards, as well as blind fvcking luck, it never went to total melt-down, which would have been horrendous. IIMO, the industry learned a LOT from this incident, and (again, IMO) the industry is safer than ever, HOWEVER, everyone remembers "The China Syndrome" (released 12 days before the TMI incident) and Chernobyl, and nuke power has been shunned since.
My ONLY real concern about these types of plants, is how to dispose of spent fuel...Burying it encased in concrete until time-immemorial, seems pretty short-sighted, as we just don't know what kinds of changes the earth is in store for...Personally, I'd like to see it sent into the sun, BUT, just one Challenger-type accident would be a major disaster...so, until the technology catches up/improves...