NegativeNull@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoThree Mile Island nuclear plant set for restart on Microsoft AI power dealwww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down16
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minus-squareMyOpinion@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down17·11 months agoWhy in the world would you want to revive a clearly dangerous design of a plant.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down2·11 months agoA poof of radioactive steam let loose. That’s it, the whole incident. People freaked out on March 28, 1979. In totally unrelated news, The China Syndrome, about a reactor meltdown, came out March 16, 1979.
minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·11 months agohttps://whyy.org/articles/thyroid-cancer-study-re-ignites-debate-over-three-mile-island-accidents-health-effects/
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoI do not think anyone is suggesting that it wasn’t a nuclear accident. Or suggesting that people did not get hurt as a result of it. But the cause of the accident is extremely well understood, and was mostly down to Human error not a failure in their design.
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minus-squareMyOpinion@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down8·11 months agoI saw that it was a different reactor, but is the design that much different from the one they had the problem with?
minus-squareZangoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months agoGiven that it was running until 2019 when it closed because it wasn’t profitable enough, I think it’s probably fine
minus-squareArxCyberwolf@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoTMI operated safely and without incident for 40 years after the accident. An accident that killed nobody and amounted to little more than a poof of steam.
Why in the world would you want to revive a clearly dangerous design of a plant.
A poof of radioactive steam let loose. That’s it, the whole incident. People freaked out on March 28, 1979.
In totally unrelated news, The China Syndrome, about a reactor meltdown, came out March 16, 1979.
https://whyy.org/articles/thyroid-cancer-study-re-ignites-debate-over-three-mile-island-accidents-health-effects/
I do not think anyone is suggesting that it wasn’t a nuclear accident. Or suggesting that people did not get hurt as a result of it.
But the cause of the accident is extremely well understood, and was mostly down to Human error not a failure in their design.
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I saw that it was a different reactor, but is the design that much different from the one they had the problem with?
Given that it was running until 2019 when it closed because it wasn’t profitable enough, I think it’s probably fine
TMI operated safely and without incident for 40 years after the accident. An accident that killed nobody and amounted to little more than a poof of steam.