Timesuck | Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Early in the morning of March 28th, 1979, equipment failures and a stuck open relief valve prevented the removal of heat from Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island Unit 2 nuclear reactor’s core - an essential function that prevents reactor damage. And within hours, it seemed like things were on the brink of a catastrophic nuclear crisis. In the end, a true crisis would be averted... kind of. While the reactor's partial meltdown did NOT kill anyone... the media coverage of it DID nearly kill America's nuclear energy industry. Was that reaction justified? Now they we understand what really happened, should we now pick up where we left off with nuclear plant production in the 1970s?
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Timesuck | Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster
I grew up in the UK in 70's. And the threat of nuclear war really fucked with my mind.
One of the air raid sirens was near my house, we called it the 3 minute warning, 'cos that all the warning you'd get so close to them evil commie bastards!
Anyhow, they have to test these sirens from time to time, and some fucking genius "🙄", who shall remain forever nameless decided that 5am on a Sunday morning was that time.
No one, absolutely no one, was warned in advance.
Panic hardly describes the chaos that ensued. Luckily no one killed themselves, though this had more to do with the lack of privately held firearms than Britain's famously "stiff upper lip", whatever that means.
I still wake up once in a while in a cold sweat, remembering my hysterical reaction of clinging on to my Mums leg crying that "I didn't won't to die".
It's really hard not punch people in the face when they factuously state that it was better "In the good old days".
Allegedly My great-grandpa was part of a military test where they dropped a nuke near soldiers in ditches and his kidneys disappeared before he died. Just something I was told my whole life, no idea if its true.
Must've shriveled and dried up before they disappeared.
Yes! Kidneys dont just "dry up" or disappear, but they DO fail for many reasons. Pre-renal, intra-renal, or post-renal failure has to be determined, but toxins are definitely a known cause.
I work at one of the places in this story I won’t say to much but I’m gonna tell ya Dan we love ya here.
Fun fact!
My mom is the president of Veterans For Peace a movement that sails for a nuclear free world. Their boat 'The Golden Rule' sails around the world and the association giving speeches to end nuclear testing & weapons manufacturing. Just thought I would throw that out there!
I visited 3 Mile Island around 1986. I was only 7 years old, and it was already deemed safe enough for children to tour. IIRC, I was barred from entering the disabled cooling tower due to my age, but the adults in the group were allowed to explore it without any type of protection.
Gosh dang!! I don't know much, but I think it affects any living body regardless of age! Scary!
The only area's that are radioactive are the containment building, especially the basement. And there are a few water storage tanks in the auxiliary building that are contaminated.
No worries visiting the site.
One of the reasons they probably had a meeting in Nebraska, is because that’s where Stratcom is. Offit air force base contains one of the doomsday bunkers I believe. They have the the strategic command post there.
Most people who fear nuclear power do so because their understanding of of it comes from The Simpsons and they believe we're one lazy donut loving slob away from armageddon.
Two points.
Firstly, the missing kidney!
I think what happened is that Jean was born with one kidney. It not that rare, no one at the hospital would've checked when she was born and you can live quite normally with just one kidney, though any urine tests would show certain harmless anomalies.
Along comes TMI, and someone who is a worrier gets a psychologically induced physical effect. Namely all the hair and skin issues. That person then goes to the hospital, the hospital does a bunch tests, including a urine test, and the anomalies I mentioned are spotted.
Because her symptoms are a mystery they do a ultrasound, AND,
da da daaaar,
One missing kidney.
Secondly, there's one glaringly big problem with nuclear. Everytime one of the reactors suffers a "beyond design accidents" we have to permanently evacuate a 1000 square miles. Obviously if we carry on like that the surface of the earth will be one giant ecological Swiss cheese, plus people will get quite annoyed.
Of course we can solve this problem.
STOP BUILDING HUGE FUCKING REACTOR!!
If you keep them smaller than 500-600Mw thermal, then they can't meltdown, they just can't, not enough decay heat to melt the SCRAM'd reactors fuel.
Love the video, lots of detail.
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I think I fell under the same thought nuclear to me has always been the weapons never really sat and thought about the good it can do
Anyone know why the iHeart version is sped up so fast?
This was the first time listening. This may have been just a bad episode, but the event is horribly downplayed. Feels like just Google seach research with no conversation with people who experienced it. My family luckily went to Philadelphia on day 2. TMI was still tracking people's health up to shutting down.
I was 3 when this happened and lived less than 5 miles from TMI when this occurred.
What I do feel this downplayed got wrong.
1. Explosion can happen (Chernobyl). May not be an Atom bomb, but still can have the force up to thousands of pounds of TNT.
2. TMI was a very serious situation that (1) came within 60 of a meltdown, which could have killed up to 40k people. (2) Had a hydrogen bubble that many scientists believed could have exploded like it did a Chernobyl. If that occurred a 50 mile radius including the capitol would not have been habitual for maybe 100 years. This should cause fear.
3. MET ED, power company, continued to lie to the government and to the people of the surrounding area causing news to over react. Their lies could injure millions and kill thousands. It would have been horrible neglect on their part not to warn people of what could happen.
4. No one really knows what came out of this incident. The most famous scientists in this field say this. If you think a low dose could kill thousands of fish, cause rashes, sore throats, and bring a metallic taste a week after, then you are gullible. This is what Met ED told people. They didn't believe this either or they wouldn't have strong armed people within a certain radius to sign a legal document weeks after to not sue for future illness. This happened to my family.
5. My neighborhood had a horrible cancer outbreak. Most kids that didn't evacuate died before 30. Adults, including my mom, had a lifetime of cancer incidents.
I don't think nuclear power is bad. I live near Oakridge today. I think that not all companies will do the right things for money.
It was because of Met Ed that nuclear power stopped being used. People stopped trusting power companies would do the right things. MET Ed played Russian roulette with millions of people lives.
I thought people should know the story of a survivor. I say survivor because we will never know how many people really died from side effects.
I dig these ones more than people focused time sucks. Still waiting for Charles Whitman aka the Texas clock tower marksman. His last letter to the world was so eerie
Around 15:05, I kept expecting to hear, "Drive safe, don't rape!"lolol
This whole thing with media coverage, conspiracies, and oddly enough, the coincidental movie-event situation reminds me of the train incident in East Palestine. It seems like it has quite a few parallels to the 3 mile island incident, hysteria and media wise. Now, the actual dangers of this event comparing to 3 mile island seems to be much greater than the equivalent "exposure" they had to radiation comparing to the amount of chemicals we were exposed to, even though that's a hard comparison between chem and rads.
I hear these crazy conspiracies around the town, like this was all for medical bracelets and trying to industrialize the area and whatever else panic created. Its pretty easy to see it's from lack of regulation and recklessness of Norfolk Southern in favor for higher profits. Became pretty apparent when they tried to just bury the contaminants underneath the tracks where the wreckage is.
The media, however, is pretty cut and dry about it and pretty dang accurate, since chemical leaks are nowhere near as complicated as nuclear power. In Caveman Dans words, " Chemical tube on wheels good, feel good fine, ouch chemicals hurt bad, run, chemical not in tube on wheels, bad ouch hurts chest, go run!"
Fun Fact: The movie White Noise that came out late last year about pretty much a similar situation was filmed 25-30 minutes from here.
i used to work in the environmental field and i used to work at a location that in the 80’s was the 2nd most contaminated location in the country behind 3 mile island
I now understand quagmire from family guys old improv groups name “three smile island”
Noice. Pass the Whipple Chillllll.
14:50-15:28 Can we get a short of the caveman description of a nuclear meltdown please?!
A meltdown is when the rod used to cool the reactor get to hot and melt. This either causes a leak in radiation, which happened at Three Mile Island at first or could build up and cause a hydrogen bubble in the containment center. This is what happened in Chernobyl when too much hydrogen collected, which caused it to explode.
The only way to get the bubble out is to slow release it in the environment. Then the fuel rods and fuel still need removed because they are still highly radioactive.
1983 was when they removed them, which almost became another deadly disaster China Syndrome), once again over money.
Can you please tell me what chip tune that is? The music playing while you are schilling Atomic Man. I have heard it on several videos (usually associated with old 8-bit video games; NES, SEGA Master System, etc.) and i absolutely love it! However, I don't know what it is called or where it originated. As always, another great suck. 3 outta 5 stars, wouldn't change a thing. Also, I may have uncovered evidence of your father's whereabouts during some of his "absences" in the lat 70s to early 80s.
Smithers, release the hounds...
Loved it!
Fun fact: Eleanor and FDR were actually distant cousins also 😂
Not so distant.
I love when we find out that historical figures that were married may have been cousins. In high school we had a running joke of incest with my friends and I because a couple of them saw a picture of my cousin on my facebook when I was checking it in school. They said "he's hot" I said "I know". Thus the joke was born.
My cousin is my second cousin, and only has my grandpa (his great grandpa) as a common ancestor. His grandma is my aunt who has a different mom than my dad. My cousin is also only the half brother of his sister. It was a think when we were teens that wee were barely related so we didn't have to be around each other at family gatherings. We don't really care about each other and we haven't seen each other since we were 14 and 15. Also his name is a stupid name.
I need to be able to download atomic man and fighting man as ringtones
Can you please do a timesuck on John looney he has a super interesting story n he’s from my home town area in the quad cities
I've been trying for years to convince anyone who wants to get rid of coal plants to at least acknowledge that nuclear is the most practical alternative. Also big fan of atomic man jingle. Maybe we can get a Whipple: Atomic Edition in the future.
Well, with how they're treating East Palestine... But yes, fission is de wai.
I have a cat named Roentgen
"...If it says 3.4, then it could be 3.4"
The real disaster was in communication
It was a meltdown. Period.
23:57 bro uncorrected
Smile Island
New cue lar like Bush said 🤣
Fuck ya im excited for this one
I want to go to the theater and watch movies made by Bear 🐻 Evil 😈! This movie is pure evil 😈 and theirs nothing you can do about! We own everything! We're bear 🐻 evil 😈 🤣