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This event, and everything around SS, was just par for the nuke industry. Forbidding staff from warning their families about contamination was typical evil. T
by ncmncm 4y ago
This event, and everything around SS, was just par for the nuke industry.
Forbidding staff from warning their families about contamination was typical evil.
There is never any expectation that any nuke project will do better, absent strict regulation and rigorous enforcement. It is why the public is very sensibly sour on nukes.
But the only thing stopping more of it, today, is that they cost way more than alternatives. Always did, but it is harder now to paper over.
- pdonis 4y ago> the nuke industry This wasn't "the nuke industry". It was a government testing lab. No member of the public has been harmed by actual commercial nuclear power plants. All of the dicey stuff (and there was a lot more of it than just this) was done by the government. > There is never any expectation that any nuke project will do better, absent strict regulation and rigorous enforcement So you want the government that set this testing lab up to do the regulation and enforcement?
- morsch 4y agoDebatable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident_health_effects https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident_h...
- shakow 4y agoHave you read the article you post? Virtually no-one was able to find a statistically relevant affect on health in then neighbouring population. > The American Nuclear Society concluded that average local radiation exposure was equivalent to a chest X-ray and maximum local exposure equivalent to less than a year's background radiation. > the study found no link between fallout and cancer risk > "no consistent evidence" of causation by TMI > found rates as expected in the county in which the reactor is located
- ncmncm 4y agoAnyway the American Nuclear Society was not "able". No one seemed interested in the experience of people living near the river, gassed by the volume of radioactive krypton gas "vented" that (being much denser than air) poured down and spread out over the river banks.
- morsch 4y agoI've read it. Do you want me to selectively quote some sentences that support the opposing view? This is why I said it's debatable, not conclusive.
- ncmncm 4y agoIt was a government-funded private lab.
- Spooky23 4y agoGovernment contractors do what the government wants and ignore what they don’t. The people who designed nuclear strategy believed that nuclear warfare and devastation was inevitable. It was a convenient way to brush off these types of concern.