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Signs by South Bridge turnoff Highway 441
Record Group 220: Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and BoardsSeries: President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, March 29 - April 30, 1979
This color photograph shows a two lane highway bordered by trees and scrub. A color sign for the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station is on the side of the road.
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Guys help I'm getting hyperfixated on radiation.
There's so much to learn- so many radiation incidents. Help.
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I'm playing animal crossing while listening to documentaries about nuclear disasters throughout history.
Just got done hearing about Three Mile Island accident and the media relations disaster that led to the downfall of public opinion of nuclear power plants, despite the fact that there was not a single case of anyone contracting any diseases due to the radiation that was released and that by and large all the safety mechanisms did what they were supposed to and how it was the human error that caused the accident, all while watering my roses and moving some decorations around.
Gotta say: the vibe is immaculate.
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3 mile island view from Rocky Ridge.
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I watched the limited series about three mile island on Netflix & I liked it generally!! But 2 things annoyed me sooo much: 1. they totally dumbed down the reactor mechanics. I understand this is a deranged thing to be upset about. However, that’s not going to stop me.
2. They kept saying TMI was the “worst nuclear accident” ever/in the country/to date, and then toward the end they said it’s the worst commercial nuclear accident ever, which is true. It depends, I guess, on the metrics you’re using, but I think they intentionally failed to ever mention the SL-1 reactor explosion in Idaho, which caused obviously massive damage, a radiation leak, and caused three fatalities in 1961, because it was a massive botch job by the US army and they’re intentionally trying to sweep it under the rug. In this essay I will—
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Countryhuman Original Character: The Embodiment of Nuclear Technology
I don't have a name for him yet, but here's some outfits he's worn to several nuclear-powered incidents around the world.
The Los Alamos Trinity tests
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima
Chernobyl
Three Mile Island
The Bikini Atoll tests
#countryhuman oc#nuclear technology#hiroshima#nagasaki#fukushima#chernobyl#three mile island#bikini atoll#trinity tests#ginjika#apocalypse for breakfast and brunch [hiroshima & nagasaki]#made with picrew#I'll probably call him hazi for a bit#and do seascale#he is a coping mechanism#confort character
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I'm watching the docuseries on Netflix called Meltdown: Three Mile Island and this dude (Rick Parks) just said "Organizations rot from the top down. They do not rot from the bottom up." And if I didn't have a physical- I'll say it- mildly sexual reaction to those words I'll be damned.
#also we are fucked it really is the end times#man though like i am putting that quote somewhere in my office#as my organization approaches peak disgusting rot#netflix#meltdown#three mile island#fuuuuuuuuuuck#fuck#eat the rich
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President Jimmy Carter leaving [Three Mile Island] for Middletown, Pennsylvania.
Record Group 220: Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and BoardsSeries: President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, March 29 - April 30, 1979
This color photograph shows crowds of people (mostly press) in front of a nuclear power plant. Several large cooling towers are visible in the background. Two police cars are escorting a presidential motorcade away from the scene.
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Watching the Three Mile Island documentary, and it honestly a shame that we can’t utilize nuclear power. It is actually cleaner and safer than fossil fuels (coal fired power plants produce 100 times more atmospheric radiation than a nuclear plant producing the same amount of energy), especially with how far safety technology has come since the 70s
However, the biggest factor is human greed. There was warning of potential danger in other plants, and how to prevent them, before Three Mile Island, which was ignored. The company in charge of clean up refused to spend money to ensure that equipment was safe to use, nearly causing another catastrophe of it hadn’t been exposed. In Japan, the operator of the power plant blatantly ignored warnings of a future earthquake/tsunami and never improved their defenses
Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge supporter of renewable energy. I much prefer investing into that over nuclear. But it would have been a nice transition away from more harmful sources like coal and oil. It sucks that we can’t have nice things because companies care more about money than doing things safely
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If you want to know what propaganda looks like in action, look at how discussion of Three Mile Island and Fukushima plays out in comparison to Chernobyl.
Chernobyl discussions emphasize both the horribly flawed design of the RBMK reactor and operator error. Discussions of Fukushima and TMI almost always focus solely on operator error, not the design of the plants.
You often hear how TMI operators misread water levels but you rarely hear why that happened. It's because the pressure head of the reactor, which was the most common place to read the water level, was built with a god damned u-bend in it that trapped a steam bubble at the top of the reactor while leaving the water level appearing high. You also hear about how a stuck valve was the cause of the problem, but you rarely hear that it was a too-clever-by-half design that was known at the time to stick open, but that this information was withheld from operators. Remember: operator error is almost always the result of poor training or information withheld from operators.
If you've watched almost anything about Chernobyl, you'll have heard that it lacked a containment vessel for overpressure, blast, and radiation leaks the way western reactors do. What you generally don't hear is that westner Boiling Water Reactors, like the kind used at Fukushima, are mostly built with a steel containment vessel which was deeply controversial at GE. In fact, three members of the design team resigned in protest over its use due to concerns that the rapid change in pressure that would accompany a meltdown would cause the containment vessel to tear itself to pieces, which is exactly what happened in Fukushima. (Operator error also played a part here.)
Let it be known that i am 110% pro-nuclear power. I bring these issues up not to indict nuclear power as a whole, nor to absolve the RBMK reactor, but to indict the corporate, capitalist mindset that prioritizes the profits of massive companies like GE, Westinghouse, and Babcock & Wilcox over safety and the advancement of nuclear power.
You are not immune to propaganda
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I finally finished this documentary on Netflix. It's a shame that big companies try to get away with harming the American people. There was so much cover-up.
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