episode 17: Three Mile Island
On March 28, 1979 Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant in the United States of America an incident would lead to a partial reactor core meltdown. Many blamed the operators for stopping the reactor cooling system but the real root causes showed a known flaw in the design and alarm flooding had blinded the operators to what was actually happening.
With John Chidgey.
Related episodes:
- Causality Episode 3: Fukushima
Links of potential interest:
- Three Mile Island accident
- Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station
- Nuclear Regulator Commission renews Three Mile Island Unit 1s License
- Nuclear accident and recovery at Three Mile Island
- Three Mile Island Accident
- Measuring Radiation
- Three Mile Island Engineering Report
- Three Mile Island Accident Health Effects
- Facts and Information About Radiation Exposure
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Episode Gold Producer: 'r'.
Episode Silver Producers: Carsten Hansen, Eivind Hjertnes and Daniel Dudley.