[at-l] Three Mile (On-List, Off-Topic)

[chaynes@megalink.net (Clifford R. Haynes)]

Well I aint gona argue about it, but that TV show was a crock, and a joke.
Much of it was anti nuc garbage designed to scare the crap out of the
uninformed, and it worked ( apparently still is).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sloetoe" <sloetoe@yahoo.com>
To: <RoksnRoots@aol.com>; <jbkramer@afn.org>
Cc: <AT-L@backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Three Mile (On-List, Off-Topic)


>
> --- RoksnRoots@aol.com wrote:
> > Bryan wrote:
> >
> > What bunk, I've seen the engineering report on Three Mile
> > Island and it was never near melt down.
>
> >
> >     ~~~  my experience/information is based solely on a TV
> > documentary. What I saw were the actual participants admitting
> that they did not tell the entire story to the public during the
> event.
>
> >      The program gave statements by involved-at-the-time
> > nuclear engineers saying if it wasn't for a level-headed
> top-scientist realizing the correct scenario and ordering a last
> minute solution, the core would have gone terminal and exploded
> violently.
>
> ### RnR, this was a PBS Frontline program. I have watched it
> twice, and it is gutwrenchingly sobering. (I had to drive right
> by TMI to start my throughhike, and *hike* by it 3 months
> later...) FWIW, I've only known Frontline to get something wrong
> once, and they were ROUNDLY ripped for it. The program you're
> speaking of produced not-a-peep from any "other side."
>
> Sloetoe
>
> =====
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