Netflix: Meltdown three mile island

[Sandflee]

Well done and what a cluster Eff of an accident. Love how the same thing always plays out in these instances

 

“we have it under control, and the public is not in any danger” 

Edited January 25 by Sandflee

[Ditchbag]

Lol I live 3.5 miles from it .

[Sandflee]

5 mins ago, Ditchbag said:

Lol I live 3.5 miles from it .

Damn, back then when it happened too?

Edited January 25 by Sandflee

[Ditchbag]

3 mins ago, Sandflee said:

Damn

Fished around it all of my life .

Cooling towers above the sm 

Edited January 25 by Ditchbag

[Sandflee]

Just saw this recent article too

 

Fukashima Plant:

 

Huge volumes of contaminated water have accumulated on the site since. Water was needed to cool the damaged reactors and groundwater that became contaminated as it infiltrated the site had to be pumped out and stored.

 

Over 1,000 tanks have been built on site to store over a million tons of radioactive water.

But the site is running out of storage space and the tanks could leak, particularly in the event of an earthquake or a typhoon.

 

So the Japanese authorities have given the site permission to release the stored radioactive water through a pipeline to the Pacific Ocean.

[Ditchbag]

17 mins ago, Sandflee said:

Damn, back then when it happened too?

All of my life .

[TimS]

24 mins ago, Sandflee said:

So the Japanese authorities have given the site permission to release the stored radioactive water through a pipeline to the Pacific Ocean.

Nothing to see here  

[DoorGunner]

53 mins ago, Sandflee said:

Just saw this recent article too

 

Fukashima Plant:

 

Huge volumes of contaminated water have accumulated on the site since. Water was needed to cool the damaged reactors and groundwater that became contaminated as it infiltrated the site had to be pumped out and stored.

 

Over 1,000 tanks have been built on site to store over a million tons of radioactive water.

But the site is running out of storage space and the tanks could leak, particularly in the event of an earthquake or a typhoon.

 

So the Japanese authorities have given the site permission to release the stored radioactive water through a pipeline to the Pacific Ocean.

 

So go ahead and piss off Godzilla again.

[Niffty]

Nuclear energy. Its "clean." Except for the one byproduct that happens to be the most poisonous substance known to mankind. 

 

It's completely safe unless subject to natural disaster or human error. Both of which are inevitable. 

[Toad in Nj]

Was 12 years old and had just seen The China Syndrome with my parents. 
 

Boy did those 3 mile folks get ****ed by the release date of that movie 2 weeks prior.  

[Markushook]

Was a very good documentary 

[FizzyFish]

6 hours ago, Niffty said:

Nuclear energy. Its "clean." Except for the one byproduct that happens to be the most poisonous substance known to mankind. 

 

It's completely safe unless subject to natural disaster or human error. Both of which are inevitable. 

FWIW.   Radioactive isotopes eventually decay, or disintegrate, to harmless materials. Some isotopes decay in hours or even minutes, but others decay very slowly. Strontium-90 and cesium-137 have half-lives of about 30 years (half the radioactivity will decay in 30 years). Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years 

 

These are typical of the waste in spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants.

 

Source: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/radwaste.html

[cleatis]

I couldn’t get through 20 minutes of it.  Terrible.  

[makomakoman]

3 mins ago, cleatis said:

I couldn’t get through 20 minutes of it.  Terrible.  

Thank you

 

I did not finish it either.  

[Kings over Queens]

8 hours ago, Sandflee said:

 

So the Japanese authorities have given the site permission to release the stored radioactive water through a pipeline to the Pacific Ocean.

Good Lord, any one who's seen Godzilla knows this it a classically stupid idea.

 

Will they never learn?