The 32nd anniversary of the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island is being marked at the plant with prayers for Japan.And yet, not a single person outside the plant was in any way harmed. Although mistakes were made, the safety features of the technology did their job.
WGAL-TV reports about 30 people gathered early Monday outside the nuclear plant near Harrisburg for a vigil to remember the worst commercial nuclear power plant accident in U.S. history.
An equipment failure and operator errors led to partial core meltdown at the plant's Unit 2 reactor around 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979.
And there hasn't been an accident in the U.S. since then. We can't let a 32-year old incident, or a plant devastated by a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami stop us from pursuing clean nuclear energy.
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I'm convinced that people have confused old movies like The China Syndrome with news events during the same time period. Most of the voters are convinced that Sarah Palin said "I can see Russia from my house" when it was said by Tina Fey on SNL. People see movies like Oliver Stone's JFK as historical fact. The Green Party was just successful in ousting Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats from power in Germany over Nuclear Energy fears.
Yet those of us who think "Global Warming" is an unjustified, elaborate wealth redistribution scheme are considered "anti-science" and "deniers". Go figure.
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