3 mile island anniversary

[baglady]

Just a bit of nostalgia, we just passed the 30 year anniversary of the 3 mile island fiasco. Seems unbelievable so much time has passed!!!

[greenmachine]

Yes, 3 mile island, America's most infamous industrial accident-- and the deaths that accompanied the biggest string of lies ever told in US industrial history.

[baglady]

I thought there were no deaths from this incident- and a study by Columbia University even claimed there were no significant health impacts.

[greenmachine]

People died--and are still dying--at Three Mile Island. The public was assured the government would follow up with meticulous studies of the health impacts of the accident, but the fact is the federal government did nothing to track the health histories of the region's residents. In fact, the state of Pennsylvania hid the health impacts, including deletion of cancers from the public record, abolition of the state's tumor registry, misrepresentation of the impacts it could not hide (including an apparent tripling of the infant death rate in nearby Harrisburg) and much more.

[baglady]

Ironically, like Chernobyl, Three Mile Island Unit Two was a state-of-the-art reactor. Its official opening came on December 28, 1978, and it melted exactly three months later. Had it operated longer,
the accumulated radiation spewing from its core almost certainly would have been far greater

[D.spoub]

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