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Hollywoods tribute to Mike Douglas

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MY wife was watching this program when Jane " Hanoi" Fonda came on. I said I don't want to watch this anymore. Fonda then bragged about the film China Syndrome and its apparent effect on the Nuclear Power Industry. These Hollywood types seem quite smug in taking credit for stopping these plants being built. So did they make America a better place to live? Let's see. We are more dependant on foreign oil and have more coal fired power plants which are blamed for global warming and carbon dioxide levels.
 
One thing i cant stand is when someone acts a part and then feels they're a trained expert in the matter. She's assuming she had something to do with it when it was the Three Mile Island accident that was the nail in nuke plant coffin as far as the public was concerned. Even then, no injuries, no deaths, no long term effects were ever attributed because the design of the plant did what it was supposed to. Now if it were a Chernoble type accident then i could see public opinion not wanting nuke power. But Hanoi Jane is just another abundant nobody that needs propping up by her peers to appear relevant.
 
Now, let me get this straight: you're watching a HOLLYWOOD tribute to Mike Douglas, and then you get upset when you see a HOLLYWOOD type abundant on the screen, spouting abundant gibberish?

What were you expecting, for them to dig up John Wayne and Ronald Reagan? Since it was a HOLLYWOOD tribute to Mike Douglas, seems to me you had adequate warning about what was to come.
 
I get Mike Douglas, Stephen Douglas and Frederick Douglass mixed up; which one was he? What was it he accomplished?
 
Cue: Three-Mile Island, as you say, for all practical purposes killed the nuclear power industry here; however, there are differences of opinion as to aftereffects...( Yes, I"m aware all the "Official" versions say there were none, and we all believe everything the Gov"t says, and we all know Industry is always honest, don"t we)...
As to Babock & Wilcox"s plant design, it not only reportedly failed to provide necessary instrumentation (which, if installed and working, may well"ve allowed operators to maintain control), but also reportedly contained a built-in design flaw which nearly caused a Chernobyl here...
Email me (pitybud@com); I"ve got a book upstairs somewhere, and can send details.
 
Cue: Haven"t been into this for quite awhile, so out of curiosity checked Wikipedia entry; while it"s not reliable by itself by any means, a quick cursory scan indicates it"s discussion sounds pretty well on the mark, with a little reading between the lines.
On the radiation release, one counter on the roof?? of one of the buildings is often referenced as showing only X quantity of radiation release; what they omit saying is that particular reading was pegged at the upper limit of the instrument, meaning it"s reading was low, but apparently impossible to tell how low.
Wikipedia also omits saying the Babcock & Wilcox operating manuals didn"t cover what the instruments were saying, apparently because that particular situation wasn"t supposed to be able to exist, leaving operators, already apparently poorly trained, guessing.
Pleasant reading!!
 
The "China Syndrome" movie had the incredible good fortune to come out right before the REAL THING: Three Mile Island. The Three Mile Island incident was similar enough to the movie that a lot of comparisons were drawn between the two. No doubt many people thought they were one and the same. And we all know what happened to construction of new nuclear power plants after Three Mile Island. Since the China Syndrome movie and the Three Mile Island incident were intertwined in the mind of the public, it's probably fair to say that the movie had considerable influence on nuclear power development for the next twenty years.

I remember reading a column by George F. Will in US News and World Report right after the movie came out. He went into great detail how this could never happen. He got to eat his words a few days later when Three Mile Island came along.
 
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