Saturday, April 21, 2018
Three Mile Island Incident
The Three Mile island Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located on a three mile island in Pennsylvania on the Susquehanna river. An accident there was the greatest in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. With failures in a secondary system valves, this led to large amounts of nuclear reactor coolants to escape in a primary system. Through human error, there was a mistake in the plant operating system leading to crystallized anti-nuclear safety concerns. This incident caused radioactive gasses and iodine to escape, and it costed $1 billion to clean up. A new program was founded to keep a better hold on the Nuclear Generating Stations, after president Jimmy Carter investigated the situation. He did say that this was a minor incident although this was not said to the public because the anti-nuclear groups had started protests. These protests lead to health funds for the citizen groups.
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The 1970s was a period of time when America's economical problems began to become pretty evident. We began to experience the effects of past modes of disposal, such as packing waste and putting them in crates below the ground. As time progressed, the chemicals in the crates began to erode the crates and as a result, chemicals were leaking into the underground water system.
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ReplyDeleteIt's very unfortunate that due to accidents like this many tend to turn away from nuclear energy. Nuclear energy can be beneficial for us, as it can allow us to move away from using fossil fuels. But I do understand why it can also be dangerous to us due to human error.
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