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spazzmann

(748 posts) Thu Mar 28, 2013, 09:57 AM Mar 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on March 28, 1979

 In the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, a cooling system on the Unit Two reactor failed at Three Mile Island (TMI) in Middletown, Pennsylvania. This led to a partial meltdown that uncovered the reactor's core. http://bit.ly/XetKel 

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Nope. wtmusic Mar 2013 #1

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Thu Mar 28, 2013, 10:41 AM

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The worst nuclear accident in U.S. history was in 1959 at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Simi Valley, CA. It released 450x as much radiation as Three Mile Island.

It's estimated to have been responsible for 400 cancer deaths in the San Fernando Valley, which is downwind. TMI, despite the ravings of antinuclear activists, didn't result in one.

I've lived 20 miles downwind of SSFL for 25 years, and I'm not concerned in the least.

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