"No big deal," the man says. And he's right. Three Mile Island was a PR catastrophe of gargantuan proportions. But as a radiological incident, it wasn't very big. Although radioactive material was discharged into the environment, this was low-level activity barely above background. The Containment building did its job : the partially-destroyed reactor core was contained.
We've had far more impactful accidents in the petroleum industry, many times over in terms of both environmental and human casualties since 1979--the Deepwater Horizon comes to mind. And coal mining remains one of the most dangerous occupations to this day. Wind, hydro power and solar power are inconsistent and limited to certain areas. And yet because of this one incident (Fukushima and Chernobyl were totally different situations), people refuse to even consider nuclear energy. It's astonishing how policy is based in a foundation of emotion.
If the operators simply went out for coffee and doughnuts at the first sign of trouble, the reactor protection system would have done its job, and the plant would be running today.
Living 12 miles from this accident when it happened, I can tell you the lack of good information is what made it all the more scary. One never knew if they were getting the truth, nor weather the "experts" even knew what was truly going on.
@Jim Frazier - The sad thing is if the operators had been "Locked Out" of the control room the automatic shutdown would have prevented the meltdown and no major damage would have happened. The valve was closed when the indicator said it was open so the reactor overheated.
@@WJV9 thats true to a point. There were design flaws that "tricked" the operators..not too mention faulty equipment. TMI Unit 1 was down for refueling when the accident at Unit 2 happened. Guys that worked both Units said that Unit 1 was a smooth running, great performing plant. But they said that Unit 2 was always a "dog"..that nothing ever worked right.
It shouldn't be something to laugh at it, but it is somewhat amusing. Literally several months after completing it and poof... all that money wasted. Then nearly a billion to clean up! With that said, in their defense, I can attest to the fact that it's not so easy working under stressful conditions when you don't fully grasp what's going on (even if you're supposed to.)
@@FilmiracleProductions That's for sure. Especially when the instrumentation you are relying on is giving you faulty information. This could have been so much worse. But the containment building worked.
Something similar happened with the Enrico Fermi complex in Michigan. Luckily they didn't trash the while thing--Fermi 2 has been safely producing power for over 50 years now.
My dad designed and made the floating pump to remove the radioactive water. He and another entered into the containment building through a hole made through the concrete onto an I beam 30 ft above the radioactive water. They passed the pump and hosing carefully down onto the surface without it flipping over and got the heck out of there. I don't think the NRC knew before hand the plans to do this.
Sadly the bad PR they put out due to this really killed the nuclear power plants in the United States and we switched to building nasty coal burning plants. It’s time to bring back nuclear plants.
Having performed radioactive decon and survey tasks in the past, I understand his 'not that big a deal' comment. In the moment you experience sensory overload with the alarming dosimeters, eerie surroundings... I remember one job where all I needed to do was change a lightbulb in a hotcell... received more than 1R (1000 mR) in that one job.
I was a young boy growing up just outside New York City in the '60s and seventies when the newly commissioned Indian point nuclear plant came online. It's barely half an hour north of Manhattan on the Hudson. My parents took me on a tour. It was like going to a movie theater. There was a huge auditorium and a big projection screen and the narration and presentation had me captivated. I think it was all part of a public PR effort at the time too. To reassure the public that nuclear power was safe and would be a good neighbor. The not in my backyard (NIMBY) philosophy had to be reversed. To the best of my knowledge there was never a serious accident at that facility. They used to keep the spent fuel rods on site in outdoor pools. The entire facility has been closed permanently. I couldn't have known at the time that I would get a degree in geology and study chemistry both organic and inorganic. I'm retired now. Looking back, in a post 9/11 world, that facility would have made a juicy target. Probably just another reason for having it permanently decommissioned.
Very interesting documentary. I remember when this happened and how concerned everyone was. I'm just glad that it didn't end up worse. We had similar to this in Michigan at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Station but at least the whole thing wasn't trashed and I don't think any includes were released in Michigan. Fermi 1 is pretty much history while Fermi 2 has been safely producing power for a thirty five years now.
These sorts of coolant dependent systems should never have been built in the first place. It's just asking for trouble. We have much better designs now that don't need constant power coolers.
I remember this. I've been in Fermi 2 picking up electric tooling that was going to another power plant that wasn't nuclear. Still remember the back lash against a nuke plant that was a similar design that was going to be built in Midland Michigan. It never happened, and that plant now I think is natural gas
My dad was a civil engineer in midland. He passed away in 2020 but when we were cleaning out his storage unit I found his eng logbook and even his Pink slip from the time working on the plant.
Each of Midland's two reactors were going to be similar in design to the single reactor Palisades near South Haven, Michigan. All were under ownership of Consumers Power (now Consumers Energy) at the time of construction. Palisades was later sold to Entergy who permanently shut the plant down in late May of 2022 and then sold the plant to Holtec for decommissioning. You are correct that Midland is now gas fired. I'm assuming it is combined cycle as nearby Dow Chemical uses the steam for various manufacturing processes.
The spent fuel issue persists.. The hydrogen explosion at TMI means that fission products were released. It could have been worse but it was bad enough..
@@estosgarage486 Some radioactive gas was released, but it was low level with a very short half-life and posed no threat. Spent fuel is solid, easily stored, and poses no safety threat. If nuclear power were to grow in use, and more dollars follow for further research and modernization, "spent fuel" could potentially be reused in other reactors.
TMI was far more damaged by the negative publicity than by the actual physical damage and the entire industry was nearly crippled. If not for this event, out reliance on fossil fuel power today would likely be vastly lower. Out of thousands upon thousands of reactors that have been used, only 6 have had major issues and 4 of those only after a very large earthquake and tsunami. 1 more due to haphazard design and no safety culture and then TMI from mechanical failure.
I remember that incident, I was in the 10th grade and everyone at the high School was freaking out LMBO like that a nuclear explosion had just went off, I lived in northern Virginia at the time,
A lot of the overreaction/hysteria about this incident by the public and media was due to a movie that came out just days beforehand: "The China Syndrome" was about a nuclear plant that nearly went into meltdown. It was a very scary movie to most people at the time, so when a similar-sounding scenario happened for real, people were understandably on edge. Nice little doc!
So the dude went for a walk around a meltdown reactor in a wet suit but no Pb to protect him from gamma rays? This is like James Joyce Ulysses “atomic edition”
Thanks to HOLLYWEIRD TMI looked like Chernobyl at the brink. Even driving into peoples minds today that nuclear power is “so unsafe and irresponsible.” “Where are we going to store the waste?” Simple. Where it was originally intended, deep below the ground in a remote area, after it spent countless years cooling off in a power plant pool, and surrounded by bentonite, and extensive steel shielding.
I'd argue that TMI was not the worst commercial reactor accident in the US. No lives were lost and the amount of radiation/radioactive material that was exposed to the environment was very low. Cost wise it was the worst. But in all other aspects there have been much worse.
As the saying goes, "more people died at Chappaquiddick than at Three Mile Island". And more died from the tsunami (19,000) than from the meltdown (0) at Fukushima. The world and life are full of risks, electricity, transport, gas, fire, lightning, tornados, flooding, toxic materials, dangerous animals, armed maniacs etc., but we have to manage risk.
@@kirkhamandy hero’s are ordinary people that do something extraordinary to help out a stranger, co-worker, the neighbor that runs into a fellow neighbors house to save them, etc. People that are compensated to do a dangerous job are just that, paid accordingly to do a job based upon risk. If a person receives money to do a task and does it they are not a hero just a employee.
Thorium type nuclear energy does (potentially) promise to do the heavy lifting needed to power our Country. Instead of shunning nuclear energy, we need to learn, to research, to innovate and to EDUCATE both the general public and future technicians to harness this CLEAN energy to make a better living for us and future generations. The most promise with the least environmental impact, LET'S GO!
It's frustrating that the West hasn't invested more in developing thorium reactors as an energy source. It has big potential to bridge the gap to fusion, which the West has dumped billions into with the promise that in just a decade or two it will be ready for commercialization.... something they have been claiming for decades. Fission works and with advancements in passive safety designs, it's the best option we have.
re: "Thorium type nuclear energy does (potentially) promise to do the heavy lifting needed to power our Country." I'll give you odds that BrLP and the Hydrino power mankind's future going forward ... until Fusion (another 100 yrs off?) takes hold ...
sadly...there are far too many people that flat out refuse to be educated. they are powered 100% by emotion. we have their poster boy in the White House right now. :(
I rather put my chips on either of the two approaches to making fusion commercially viable than producing more highly radioactive waste still nobody knows where to PERMANENTLY (i.e. not handing it over to future generations) store in a safe way.
Agreed, but it looks like we're not going to be able to overcome our fears. China looks more than happy to step in and beat us to it unfortunately.. I'm honestly not a big fan of Thorium though. Molten salt is a good start: No expensive fuel assemblies, low pressure, high temperatures (great for turbines), walk-away safe, chemical separation of fission byproducts. Using Thorium is a lot more complex; that problem of neutron erosion of the enrichment jacket material is going to be a tough engineering challenge to overcome. A jacket thick enough to survive long-term hurts enrichment rates, and a jacket thin enough to be efficient will fail too quickly.
Its just what happens when a simple bolb just malfunctions, or a valve doesnt closes or opens. Luckily we got away with only a mild blue eye. but nothing more than that. the Containment building did its job!
The number of people who were there and lived next to the plant, and saw the radiation clouds and got radiation poisoning from it, to this day the truth is not known except for the people who lived here and saw it happen
The documentary says "known as the worst commercial . . ." The SRE was hardly a commercial reactor, powering a nearby town for an hour. And ask just anyone on the street about the worst power plant access in the country, 9 out of 10 will say TMI because they don't know about SRE. In any event, TMI is certainly not the worst nuclear accident in the USA in terms of radiation release, injury, etc. and certainly not the first! There were plenty of partial meltdowns... and even immediate deaths.
We lived 60 miles away. Downwind. A friend was some sort of worker there. They let him go that day. He came and told us to take a vacation far away. We stayed and the rest is history
TMI-2 was a partial meltdown. Luckily it didn't breach the containment building or you would have had an exclusion zone way larger than Chernobyl's and covering four or five states (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and possibly Delaware). The whole Chesapeake Bay watershed would have been ruined by a total meltdown at TMI.
I lived 20 miles downstream that day @ 4pm I experienced a distinct metallic taste as i walked 50yrds to my neighbor also a yr prior when sailing just downstream of the rapids the following day i noticed something strange about "mild" sunburn on my exposed forearms which i called peppered sunburn which later developed a large number of very small pustules lasting unusually long time to heal conclusion a very small cloud of HOT nuclear particulates ?
Blue and green flash of matter touching is what you die from. Its what saturated everything around. The rods and water can be cleaned up then bury that place.
With what's going on now in this world has anyone learned there lesson on what nuclear disasters has done to this world to now that we should find alternative ways to make electricity and power of big ships and anything.
More people die and get cancer every year from coal power plants than have from all nuclear disasters and their aftermath put together. So nuclear is and was the answer to coal, but if we switched to nuclear the coal and gas companies would loose billions. So ask yourself this why do coal and gas push solar and wind and hate nuclear. Solar and wind guarantees the need for coal and fossil fuels. Nuclear could easily eliminate that need completely.
@@michielhuygelier6953 That's because the media and officials screwed the pooch. I live within a mile of TMI. They have now shut down the good unit permanently as End Of Life.
I didn't like the documentary----way too much time spent talking about preparation (which is boring), and not nearly enough time devoted to the findings
If apollo would have gone through the van allen belts and if apollo would have actually landed and if the astronauts would have walked on the moon they would have done it just as this guy described...that didn't happen
re: "that didn't happen" Nut. ALL the radio comms were monitored by the RUSKIES, and also several private and public universities through their radio telescopes, so, no, you're wrong..
Yeah sure because you totally forget one leg of the nuclear stool mainly Time.... The astronauts were going over 30k MPH they weren't in the belt long.... All the lunar deniers forget about the Soviets who were following the launch and actually raced Apollo 11 would of been happy to expose a hoax... We couldn't keep how to build the bomb secret but year we could keep a fake lunar landing...
We 100% landed on the moon. If you need the most compelling evidence in 50 years Russia and China haven't been able to prove we didn't despite their best efforts, but I'm sure with your billions of dollars in budget you have been able to. Actually we left a reflector on the moon told the Russian exactly where we left it and they have acknowledged it is there. We actually have pictures of the landing sights. So your postulation is we spend all that money put a whole bunch of equipment, which has been verified to be in place, all the way to the moon just with no people.
"No big deal," the man says.
And he's right. Three Mile Island was a PR catastrophe of gargantuan proportions. But as a radiological incident, it wasn't very big. Although radioactive material was discharged into the environment, this was low-level activity barely above background. The Containment building did its job : the partially-destroyed reactor core was contained.
Indeed.
The more important job was containing the hydrogen explosion.
We've had far more impactful accidents in the petroleum industry, many times over in terms of both environmental and human casualties since 1979--the Deepwater Horizon comes to mind. And coal mining remains one of the most dangerous occupations to this day. Wind, hydro power and solar power are inconsistent and limited to certain areas. And yet because of this one incident (Fukushima and Chernobyl were totally different situations), people refuse to even consider nuclear energy. It's astonishing how policy is based in a foundation of emotion.
@@douglasskaalrud6865 the one that never happened?
Ok so you can have it in your backyard. Additionaly, please look up the definition of the word "relativism". Thanks for posting this I appreciate it.
Sunday Night RUclips algorithm says: "Come watch a documentary about Three Mile Island, boy". And here I am. Great production, btw.
If the operators simply went out for coffee and doughnuts at the first sign of trouble, the reactor protection system would have done its job, and the plant would be running today.
They could have joined Homer Simpson...
Living 12 miles from this accident when it happened, I can tell you the lack of good information is what made it all the more scary. One never knew if they were getting the truth, nor weather the "experts" even knew what was truly going on.
@Jim Frazier - The sad thing is if the operators had been "Locked Out" of the control room the automatic shutdown would have prevented the meltdown and no major damage would have happened. The valve was closed when the indicator said it was open so the reactor overheated.
@@WJV9 thats true to a point. There were design flaws that "tricked" the operators..not too mention faulty equipment. TMI Unit 1 was down for refueling when the accident at Unit 2 happened. Guys that worked both Units said that Unit 1 was a smooth running, great performing plant. But they said that Unit 2 was always a "dog"..that nothing ever worked right.
Remember that was an almost brand new power plant when they ruined it. Rate payers probably still paying for this.
It shouldn't be something to laugh at it, but it is somewhat amusing. Literally several months after completing it and poof... all that money wasted. Then nearly a billion to clean up! With that said, in their defense, I can attest to the fact that it's not so easy working under stressful conditions when you don't fully grasp what's going on (even if you're supposed to.)
@@FilmiracleProductions That's for sure. Especially when the instrumentation you are relying on is giving you faulty information. This could have been so much worse. But the containment building worked.
Something similar happened with the Enrico Fermi complex in Michigan. Luckily they didn't trash the while thing--Fermi 2 has been safely producing power for over 50 years now.
@@FilmiracleProductions yeah that "guy" who was in the control room is a big fat 🤬
@@harrietharlow9929 How many times are you going to regurgitate the same statement in one comment section?
Real heros never think of themselves as heros or heroic. This man is a hero, as far as I'm concerned.
My dad designed and made the floating pump to remove the radioactive water. He and another entered into the containment building through a hole made through the concrete onto an I beam 30 ft above the radioactive water. They passed the pump and hosing carefully down onto the surface without it flipping over and got the heck out of there. I don't think the NRC knew before hand the plans to do this.
Heros
Really?
That accident changed the entire nuclear power industry. I lost my job at a fabrication company.
The China Syndrome movie didn't help either...
Sadly the bad PR they put out due to this really killed the nuclear power plants in the United States and we switched to building nasty coal burning plants. It’s time to bring back nuclear plants.
I expected to see Garrett Morris with the mop (SNL).
Having performed radioactive decon and survey tasks in the past, I understand his 'not that big a deal' comment. In the moment you experience sensory overload with the alarming dosimeters, eerie surroundings... I remember one job where all I needed to do was change a lightbulb in a hotcell... received more than 1R (1000 mR) in that one job.
That's a few zoomies!
I was a young boy growing up just outside New York City in the '60s and seventies when the newly commissioned Indian point nuclear plant came online. It's barely half an hour north of Manhattan on the Hudson. My parents took me on a tour. It was like going to a movie theater. There was a huge auditorium and a big projection screen and the narration and presentation had me captivated. I think it was all part of a public PR effort at the time too. To reassure the public that nuclear power was safe and would be a good neighbor. The not in my backyard (NIMBY) philosophy had to be reversed. To the best of my knowledge there was never a serious accident at that facility. They used to keep the spent fuel rods on site in outdoor pools. The entire facility has been closed permanently. I couldn't have known at the time that I would get a degree in geology and study chemistry both organic and inorganic. I'm retired now. Looking back, in a post 9/11 world, that facility would have made a juicy target. Probably just another reason for having it permanently decommissioned.
Amazing Documentary! Subbed. The content is engaging and really high quality
Very interesting documentary. I remember when this happened and how concerned everyone was. I'm just glad that it didn't end up worse.
We had similar to this in Michigan at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Station but at least the whole thing wasn't trashed and I don't think any includes were released in Michigan. Fermi 1 is pretty much history while Fermi 2 has been safely producing power for a thirty five years now.
Fermi 2 didn't go online until the late 1980s.
It’s called “Henrico”? Wasn’t the guy’s name Enrico? Or is it one of those things you could spell either way?
@@stdesy Enrico
@@stdesy You probably could but corrected it.
@@davidwayneprins Date corrected. Thirty five years of safe operation isn't bad.
Totally cool brave man. Glad he stayed healthy
These sorts of coolant dependent systems should never have been built in the first place. It's just asking for trouble. We have much better designs now that don't need constant power coolers.
Wearing 85lbs of protective gear!!!!
I remember this. I've been in Fermi 2 picking up electric tooling that was going to another power plant that wasn't nuclear. Still remember the back lash against a nuke plant that was a similar design that was going to be built in Midland Michigan. It never happened, and that plant now I think is natural gas
My dad was a civil engineer in midland. He passed away in 2020 but when we were cleaning out his storage unit I found his eng logbook and even his Pink slip from the time working on the plant.
Each of Midland's two reactors were going to be similar in design to the single reactor Palisades near South Haven, Michigan. All were under ownership of Consumers Power (now Consumers Energy) at the time of construction. Palisades was later sold to Entergy who permanently shut the plant down in late May of 2022 and then sold the plant to Holtec for decommissioning.
You are correct that Midland is now gas fired. I'm assuming it is combined cycle as nearby Dow Chemical uses the steam for various manufacturing processes.
The spent fuel issue persists..
The hydrogen explosion at TMI means that fission products were released. It could have been worse but it was bad enough..
@@estosgarage486 Some radioactive gas was released, but it was low level with a very short half-life and posed no threat.
Spent fuel is solid, easily stored, and poses no safety threat. If nuclear power were to grow in use, and more dollars follow for further research and modernization, "spent fuel" could potentially be reused in other reactors.
@@davidwayneprins That is not correct. Midland was a B&W designed unit, just like TMI. Palisades is a Combustion Engineering (CE) unit.
TMI was far more damaged by the negative publicity than by the actual physical damage and the entire industry was nearly crippled. If not for this event, out reliance on fossil fuel power today would likely be vastly lower. Out of thousands upon thousands of reactors that have been used, only 6 have had major issues and 4 of those only after a very large earthquake and tsunami. 1 more due to haphazard design and no safety culture and then TMI from mechanical failure.
I remember that incident, I was in the 10th grade and everyone at the high School was freaking out LMBO like that a nuclear explosion had just went off, I lived in northern Virginia at the time,
How fascinating indeed thanks for the upload
this guy is a hero
A lot of the overreaction/hysteria about this incident by the public and media was due to a movie that came out just days beforehand: "The China Syndrome" was about a nuclear plant that nearly went into meltdown. It was a very scary movie to most people at the time, so when a similar-sounding scenario happened for real, people were understandably on edge. Nice little doc!
So the dude went for a walk around a meltdown reactor in a wet suit but no Pb to protect him from gamma rays? This is like James Joyce Ulysses “atomic edition”
Thanks to HOLLYWEIRD TMI looked like Chernobyl at the brink. Even driving into peoples minds today that nuclear power is “so unsafe and irresponsible.” “Where are we going to store the waste?”
Simple. Where it was originally intended, deep below the ground in a remote area, after it spent countless years cooling off in a power plant pool, and surrounded by bentonite, and extensive steel shielding.
Brave men indeed!
How many billion would it cost to build one today ?
I'd argue that TMI was not the worst commercial reactor accident in the US. No lives were lost and the amount of radiation/radioactive material that was exposed to the environment was very low. Cost wise it was the worst. But in all other aspects there have been much worse.
As the saying goes, "more people died at Chappaquiddick than at Three Mile Island". And more died from the tsunami (19,000) than from the meltdown (0) at Fukushima. The world and life are full of risks, electricity, transport, gas, fire, lightning, tornados, flooding, toxic materials, dangerous animals, armed maniacs etc., but we have to manage risk.
Great Video. True heros that led civilization into the unknown. Not too far different than taking the first steps on the moon.
thx great video
this was very interesting
He was and is a very brave man!
@@kirkhamandy hero’s are ordinary people that do something extraordinary to help out a stranger, co-worker, the neighbor that runs into a fellow neighbors house to save them, etc.
People that are compensated to do a dangerous job are just that, paid accordingly to do a job based upon risk.
If a person receives money to do a task and does it they are not a hero just a employee.
“There was a pin that dropped dahn…”
(Being a yinzer I pick up on that accent)…
Interesting , Thank You .
Thorium type nuclear energy does (potentially) promise to do the heavy lifting needed to power our Country. Instead of shunning nuclear energy, we need to learn, to research, to innovate and to EDUCATE both the general public and future technicians to harness this CLEAN energy to make a better living for us and future generations. The most promise with the least environmental impact, LET'S GO!
It's frustrating that the West hasn't invested more in developing thorium reactors as an energy source. It has big potential to bridge the gap to fusion, which the West has dumped billions into with the promise that in just a decade or two it will be ready for commercialization.... something they have been claiming for decades. Fission works and with advancements in passive safety designs, it's the best option we have.
re: "Thorium type nuclear energy does (potentially) promise to do the heavy lifting needed to power our Country."
I'll give you odds that BrLP and the Hydrino power mankind's future going forward ... until Fusion (another 100 yrs off?) takes hold ...
sadly...there are far too many people that flat out refuse to be educated. they are powered 100% by emotion. we have their poster boy in the White House right now. :(
I rather put my chips on either of the two approaches to making fusion commercially viable than producing more highly radioactive waste still nobody knows where to PERMANENTLY (i.e. not handing it over to future generations) store in a safe way.
Agreed, but it looks like we're not going to be able to overcome our fears. China looks more than happy to step in and beat us to it unfortunately..
I'm honestly not a big fan of Thorium though. Molten salt is a good start: No expensive fuel assemblies, low pressure, high temperatures (great for turbines), walk-away safe, chemical separation of fission byproducts. Using Thorium is a lot more complex; that problem of neutron erosion of the enrichment jacket material is going to be a tough engineering challenge to overcome. A jacket thick enough to survive long-term hurts enrichment rates, and a jacket thin enough to be efficient will fail too quickly.
Its just what happens when a simple bolb just malfunctions, or a valve doesnt closes or opens.
Luckily we got away with only a mild blue eye. but nothing more than that. the Containment building did its job!
The number of people who were there and lived next to the plant, and saw the radiation clouds and got radiation poisoning from it, to this day the truth is not known except for the people who lived here and saw it happen
I entered unit two various times for clean up operations
No, nope! Not goin in there! Nope! No glow for me!
Nobody died from it.
May as well just say it. The engineer just pushed it too hard. Same for Chernobyl.
There are some amazing people in the world
He was not wearing a wet suit. He was wearing a dry suit.
The worst?! This documentary knows NOTHING of Santa Susana.
The documentary says "known as the worst commercial . . ." The SRE was hardly a commercial reactor, powering a nearby town for an hour. And ask just anyone on the street about the worst power plant access in the country, 9 out of 10 will say TMI because they don't know about SRE. In any event, TMI is certainly not the worst nuclear accident in the USA in terms of radiation release, injury, etc. and certainly not the first! There were plenty of partial meltdowns... and even immediate deaths.
a brave man.
My dad was there after the accident.
Yea, I worked with him. Good welder, good boilermaker, good guy.
oh yeah, i feel like a millionaire watching a science documentary in the 60's, very good production.
@James Wilder ditto……Huh, wtf
We lived 60 miles away. Downwind. A friend was some sort of worker there. They let him go that day. He came and told us to take a vacation far away. We stayed and the rest is history
I thought it didn’t melt down?
TMI-2 was a partial meltdown. Luckily it didn't breach the containment building or you would have had an exclusion zone way larger than Chernobyl's and covering four or five states (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and possibly Delaware). The whole Chesapeake Bay watershed would have been ruined by a total meltdown at TMI.
With respect to the TMI incident; thank goodness for dumb luck. I'm pro-nuke, but trying to whitewash the event only degrades their credibility.
Nothing to see here. Move along. Every is perfectly fine.
I lived 20 miles downstream that day @ 4pm I experienced a distinct
metallic taste as i walked 50yrds to my neighbor also a yr
prior when sailing just downstream of the rapids the following day
i noticed something strange about "mild" sunburn on my exposed
forearms which i called peppered sunburn which later developed
a large number of very small pustules lasting unusually long time to heal
conclusion a very small cloud of HOT nuclear particulates ?
Well, you're here wondering about it 43 years later so it probably doesn't really matter what it was.
@@johnlockesghost5592 go live in Chernobyl
Blue and green flash of matter touching is what you die from. Its what saturated everything around. The rods and water can be cleaned up then bury that place.
Bizarre fact.....the Canadian musician known as Nash the Slash got the idea for his bandages from this event.
There was no melt down, This is false. No the core did not melt. The Zirconium coating melted from the rods. the rods did not melt.
KOOL
With what's going on now in this world has anyone learned there lesson on what nuclear disasters has done to this world to now that we should find alternative ways to make electricity and power of big ships and anything.
More people die and get cancer every year from coal power plants than have from all nuclear disasters and their aftermath put together. So nuclear is and was the answer to coal, but if we switched to nuclear the coal and gas companies would loose billions. So ask yourself this why do coal and gas push solar and wind and hate nuclear.
Solar and wind guarantees the need for coal and fossil fuels. Nuclear could easily eliminate that need completely.
Nope. They just keep saying nobody died. Ask them about Fukushima and they still have convinced themselves it's fine. It's NOT fine
all these years, from "steam leak" to meltdown as if they had said that all along
never heard anyone admit to any meltdown, before this
WTF, ever since i've knows about the existance of TMI i've known it as a meltdown.
@@michielhuygelier6953 wasn't even close to mine 😮😵💫
@@michielhuygelier6953 That's because the media and officials screwed the pooch. I live within a mile of TMI. They have now shut down the good unit permanently as End Of Life.
Lies of the government!
Don’t believe anything they say !
It was a partial meltdown just not a full meltdown.
I didn't like the documentary----way too much time spent talking about preparation (which is boring), and not nearly enough time devoted to the findings
Hey, this isn't TMI-2...Where are the turtles? Where's the ooze? Where's Vanilla Ice?
If apollo would have gone through the van allen belts and if apollo would have actually landed and if the astronauts would have walked on the moon they would have done it just as this guy described...that didn't happen
re: "that didn't happen"
Nut. ALL the radio comms were monitored by the RUSKIES, and also several private and public universities through their radio telescopes, so, no, you're wrong..
Agreed
Yeah sure because you totally forget one leg of the nuclear stool mainly Time.... The astronauts were going over 30k MPH they weren't in the belt long.... All the lunar deniers forget about the Soviets who were following the launch and actually raced Apollo 11 would of been happy to expose a hoax... We couldn't keep how to build the bomb secret but year we could keep a fake lunar landing...
We 100% landed on the moon. If you need the most compelling evidence in 50 years Russia and China haven't been able to prove we didn't despite their best efforts, but I'm sure with your billions of dollars in budget you have been able to.
Actually we left a reflector on the moon told the Russian exactly where we left it and they have acknowledged it is there. We actually have pictures of the landing sights.
So your postulation is we spend all that money put a whole bunch of equipment, which has been verified to be in place, all the way to the moon just with no people.
@James Wilder These people don't need your rational thought, they need psychiatric care.