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go to Wikipedia. They have TAKEN OUT THE FREAKING HYPE from the discussion, have scads of documented sources, and a pretty dadburn balanced article over all. The sources that are cited - both GOOD AND BAD sources of sound information. It is WELL worth your time to at least read this part, Linda. TMIA is a POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE, a 'self-proclaimed citizen action committee' - that seem to present a very fine list of credentials to bolster themselves - and that is pretty damn self-serving .... obviously. The very FIRST line in their 'about' statement makes it CLEAR they are an 'activist organization'. They say so, themselves" "Three Mile Island Alert is a non-profit citizens' organization dedicated to the promotion of safe-energy alternatives to nuclear power and is especially critical of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant." BONG ... DOH - they HAVE AN AGENDA, are UPFRONT ABOUT ADMITTING IT, and are PROUD OF IT. Sorry, that disqualifies them COMPLETELY from being an acceptable source of unbiased information - THEY ARE BIASED, EXTREMELY BIASED, and do not attempt to hide it at all. Question, Linda - WHY IN THE WORLD would you consider a site such as that to be an acceptable source to any reasonable person - especially to myself or Due ?
Serious question, ma'am. You know that such sources, while we may use them to investigate other viewpoints, are not EVER good solid sources of factual information. From the intro: In the end the reactor was brought under control, although full details of the accident were not discovered until much later, following extensive investigations by both a presidential commission and the NRC. The Kemeny Commission Report concluded that "there will either be no case of cancer or the number of cases will be so small that it will never be possible to detect them. The same conclusion applies to the other possible health effects".[3] Several epidemiological studies in the years since the accident have supported the conclusion that radiation released from the accident had no perceptible effect on cancer incidence in residents near the plant, though these findings are contested by one team of researchers.[4] Cleanup started in August 1979 and officially ended in December 1993, with a total cleanup cost of about $1 billion.[5] The incident was rated a five on the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale: Accident With Wider Consequences.[6][7] (Monkey Notice and Monkey peer review: That last sentence is a poor source - check the sources - highly political source IEAE.org - who have a vested interest in attempting to make ANY US nuclear incident seem worse than it really was ... Why ? Because IEAE wants MORE POWER -wants to have power to regulate, inspect, and CONTROL United States assets - just as they wish to do in many countries.}
From the Body:
In the aftermath of the accident, investigations focused on the amount of radiation released by the accident. In total approximately 2.5 million curies of radioactive gases, and approximately 15 curies of iodine-131 was released into the environment.[69] According to the American Nuclear Society, using the official radiation emission figures, "The average radiation dose to people living within ten miles of the plant was eight millirem, and no more than 100 millirem to any single individual. Eight millirem is about equal to a chest X-ray, and 100 millirem is about a third of the average background level of radiation received by US residents in a year."[48][70] Based on these emission figures, early scientific publications on the health effects of the fallout estimated one or two additional cancer deaths in the 10 mi (16 km) area around TMI.[49] Disease rates in areas further than 10 miles from the plant were never examined.[49] Local activism in the 1980s, based on anecdotal reports of negative health effects, led to scientific studies being commissioned. A variety of studies have been unable to conclude that the accident had substantial health effects. The Radiation and Public Health Project cited calculations by Joseph Mangano—who has authored 19 medical journal articles and a book on Low Level Radiation and Immune Disease—that reported a spike in infant mortality in the downwind communities two years after the accident.[49][71] Anecdotal evidence also records effects on the region's wildlife.[49] For example, according to one anti-nuclear activist, Harvey Wasserman, the fallout caused "a plague of death and disease among the area's wild animals and farm livestock", including a sharp fall in the reproductive rate of the region's horses and cows, reflected in statistics from Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture, though the Department denies a link with TMI.[72] [ end of excerpt ] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident READ THE ARTICLE, LINDA - with an OPEN mind -even though you have made it crystal clear that you have closed your mind on this issue quite a long time ago. As I have stated before, and WILL STATE AGAIN - THE RADIATION RELEASE AT TMI was
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