#nuclear accident

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[ray-toro-in-a-situation]

everyone's been asking for the chernobyl accident but what about ray toro at three mile island?? 🧐

[tomorrowusa]

Trump administration lends $1 billion to restart Three Mile Island | CNN Business

The Trump administration said on Tuesday it has loaned Constellation Energy Corp CEG.O $1 billion to restart its nuclear reactor at a Pennsy

The Trump administration wants to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.

If that name rings a bell, it's because Three Mile Island was the site of the worst nuclear accident in US history. Here's a 13 minute documentary on the 1979 nuclear crisis at the plant.

It took decades and hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with this accident. In the late 1980s it was determined that 52% of the nuclear core at Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) had melted down and that molten fuel had poured into bottom of reactor vessel during the 1979 emergency.

In 2019, the unaffected reactor (TMI-1) at Three Mile Island was powered down because it had become unprofitable.

The demand for power to feed the AI frenzy is likely the reason the Trump administration is now throwing taxpayer dollars at dubious projects like Three Mile Island.

[mrcomplexity68]

40 years ago today, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered a major incident that caused one of the largest nuclear accidents to ever happen.

[wowbright]

Hey public health, public policy, health psychology, and nuclear science nerds:

Go watch Radioactive Emergency (Emergência Radioativa) on Netflix. It's got it all. Nuclear contamination. Contact tracing that becomes more complicated by the minute. Politicians and bureaucrats arguing with each other. Well-earned mistrust between the public and people they perceive as law enforcement. Nuclear physicists improbably calling cesium-137 "the Chernobyl isotope."

Okay, the last one is ridiculous, but the rest of it is really great. And you know they had to call it the Chernobyl isotope for television's sake because most people don't know what cesium-137 is, so we are going to forgive them for that.

Based on a real incident in a Brazilian city in the late 1980s that came about due to poverty and the failure of a healthcare center to properly decommission medical equipment. I've read about the incident before in physics and public health contexts; I'm glad there's a miniseries about it now.

This could easily have been done poorly, where the individuals who unknowingly spread the contamination and resist public health instructions could have been portrayed as bad in some way, but it was not. It's very sympathetic to them and absolutely clear that societal and policy failures are the reason the incident happened and that addressing it was more complicated than it would have been ideally.

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Fukushima nuclear accident

“Appearance of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Unit 3 after the explosion” - via Wikimedia Commons

[pinkysiren]

I WAS IN THE TOILET🗣🔥

[aspen-barks]

Very off usual topic but it’s a special interest so deal with it, I was walking on the coniston high fells a few days ago and got this photo, if you know your nuclear history the name of this place should be familiar, sellafield originally Windscale, this location was home to the UK’s worst nuclear disaster and the first major nuclear accident at a designated plant, the Windscale plant was an air cooled graphite moderated reactor in the 1950s-1960s it was used by the MOD for the refinement of British plutonium for nuclear weapons and due to multiple design flaws the uranium fuel cells could be dropped onto concrete and ignite and that’s what happened it would have been the 3rd worst nuclear disaster ever with the entire Lake District in a exclusion zone but it wasn’t due to my one of my favourite engineers, John Cockcroft and his role in the design, he was one of the engineers on the project and in the middle of the construction he requested that filters be placed on the chimney and at a high cost but it was that difference that was the reason why the lakes district is now not inhabitable. There is many more other sources of information on this elsewhere online and if you really want to see the shitshow of British nuclear programs there is some other devices that should be looked at including the violet club nuclear warhead, the largest fission weapon ever made, regulated by 100,000 steel ball bearings.