March 28, 1979: US' Worst Nuclear Accident​ At Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island | F. Rewind

March 28, 1979: US' Worst Nuclear Accident​ At Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island | F. Rewind
MARCH 28, 1979: America's Worst Nuclear Accident takes place​​ | On this day, the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history took place in Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania. A malfunction in the plant's nuclear reactor led to a partial meltdown and radioactive leak. The nuclear accident sparked nationwide protests.

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[gabriels]

3 mile island really was a disaster. The plant broke and they lost money. The plants physical saftey fetures worked pretty good though. Then a bunch of undereducated people ran around making stupid claims about nuclear and wasted their lives doing that.

Castel Bravo was the real disaster but that was a bomb test.

[indridcold]

It was the worse American accident, but not the worse incident.

[ocsrc]

I was here. The lies are told to this day

We had so many people hit with radiation poisoning and die from radiation exposure

The number of animals born with two heads was so large that every farm had one hanging in there barn and many businesses around the area bought taxidermied heads and displayed them in their businesses including bars and restaurants

People from the government came and purchased as many as they could

Today there are still a few remaining heads that tell the story of what really happened

We almost lost part of the Eastern United States

If the core had not gotten water within 45 minutes more, the meltdown would have hit the ground water and the plant would have exploded and what we were told at a private conference was radioactive steam would have erupted out of the ground for a 30-mile radius as the heat that was half the temperature of the Sun would have vaporized all of the groundwater and geysers of radioactive steam would have blown out of the ground and killed everything within a hundred-mile radius

I believe these people. They worm people who worked for the Department of energy and physicists specializing in nuclear fuel and they brought up issues with the plant and its design before it was even built and they were specifically told that if there was not a contingency plan in the manual that they were not allowed to ask those questions

The questions they showed that they were never allowed to ask about Three Mile Island and other sites that had meltdowns and the plants that exist today scared the hell out of me

[danielcooper]

Not close to the worst nuclear accident in US history….