Three Mile Island, Fukushima, and Navajo Uranium Mines

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Hello poison friends! I told you guys last week we'd cover a few power plant disasters and the uranium mines in the US on Navajo Nation lands. Three Mile Island is located in Pennsylvania in the US, and was the site of a relatively small nuclear power plant. I want to go into its history as well as what happened on March 28th, 1979, only three months after the second generator began operating, when there was a malfunction leading to a partial meltdown and risking the plant and those around the site. This incident was about 7 years before the accident at Chernobyl, and while it was not as serious, it did cause a lot of concern and fear about nuclear energy.
We also discuss the disaster that caused the meltdown at the Fukushima Power Plant in Japan. On March 11, 2011, there was a massive earthquake near the plant followed by a equally massive tsunami some time later. The natural disasters themselves left 20,000 people in the coastal area, where many plant workers lived with their families, dead or missing. The Tsunami made it over the sea wall of the plant, flooding and damaging generators, control systems, and cooling systems. Three of the six reactors had been online at the time and without coolant getting to the systems, meltdown was imminent.
Lastly, we have to discuss the abandoned Uranium mines in the Navajo Nation. Between 1944-1986, these mines were leased by the Navajo Nation to companies for the extraction of uranium for the creation of nuclear weapons and such. Many of those in the Navajo tribe worked these mines without proper protection or even ventilation. None of them were told about the possible effects radiation from the site could have on them.
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But nuclear energy is the safest form of electricity generation method we have.

[@adamjames6010]

@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk That’s true! I’d love to see more thorium/molten salt reactors built👍🏻

[@shaetenn]

Happy anniversary!

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@@shaetenn Thank you!

[@shaetenn]

My mom was chastising me once for correcting her, and I just said, "Don't you want to be right?"

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@@shaetenn It’s a common ASD experience 😉