A NEW THEORY ABOUT 3-MILE ISLAND

BACKGROUND:

The accident at the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1979, was the most serious in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history...

The accident began about 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, when the plant experienced a failure in the secondary, non-nuclear section of the plant. The main feedwater pumps stopped running, caused by either a mechanical or electrical failure, which prevented the steam generators from removing heat. First the turbine, then the reactor automatically shut down. Immediately, the pressure in the primary system (the nuclear portion of the plant) began to increase. In order to prevent that pressure from becoming excessive, the pilot-operated relief valve (a valve located at the top of the pressurizer) opened. The valve should have closed when the pressure decreased by a certain amount, but it did not. Signals available to the operator failed to show that the valve was still open. As a result, cooling water poured out of the stuck-open valve and caused the core of the reactor to overheat.

Because adequate cooling was not available, the nuclear fuel overheated to the point at which the zirconium cladding (the long metal tubes which hold the nuclear fuel pellets) ruptured and the fuel pellets began to melt. It was later found that about one-half of the core melted during the early stages of the accident.

Here's a fine example of conservative paranoia:

#4 - Posted on 8/07/08 at 06:21 PM
Re: Post #3

Lefteliminator
ISNT IT A CO-INCIDENCE THAT HANOI JANE STARRED IN "CHINA SYNDROME" WHICH SCARED A WHOLE GENERATION OF YOUNG POTENTIAL BRAINDEAD DEMOS INTO BECOMING ANTI NUKE?

THINK IT WAS A CO-INCIDENCE THAT THE MOVIE AND THREE MILE ISLAND WERE SO CLOSE TOGETHER, AS EVENTS?

DO YOU ACTUALLY THINK THAT THE THREE MILE ISLAND RELEASE, TWELVE DAYS AFTER THE MOVIE CAME OUT WAS AN ACCIDENT?

IT WAS NOT!

IT WAS A PLAN BY THE EARLIEST OF THE COMMUNISTS THAT INFILTRATED OUR FILM INDUSTRY....THE ONES THAT Mc CARTHY DIDNT CATCH, HAD KIDS....

THE WHOLE PLOT AGAINST USA POWER WAS, AND HAS BEEN BASED ON POWER/ENERGY/OIL/NUKES!