Combine that with the unfortunate timing of the China Syndrome, and you have the perfect PR storm that happened. If more accurate information was provided to the public on a less regular basis, the NRC and Met-Ed could have provided an accurate, unified message. This also caused severe distrust of the NRC and Nuclear Engineers. This caused a segmented message from local governments as well as the NRC. Government authorities and the NRC felt that getting info to people fast was more important than getting accurate and up to date information. The overall befuddling of communicating what was happening at the plant was what ultimately caused the panic. Meltdown is 75% fearmongering and propaganda, 20% technical information, a 5% prompted made up anectodal stories.
However, the makers of the documentary consistently did what documentaries do best and have every other sentence contain sensationalist fear ending with making a statement out of context. There was risk, but they were not close). Much of the technical information provided was accurate (except the thing about being 30 mins away from a hydrogen explosion. But, the evacuation was necessary due to the fear of the unknown. Levels never got to a point that became threatening to people. The concerns about radiation in the vicinity were valid. However, remember that nobody got seriously injured (except for the 3 individuals who died in car accidents evacuating). TMI accident was indeed, a serious nuclear accident by standards set around the world. oh, and I was a smoker."ĭo you know what is more dangerous then getting hit by a nuclear bomb and surviving? You have to get a dose of 100mSv within a year, before we can even OBSERVE negative health effects from radiation: Īnd then the old man sits and coughs in the end: "it is because of the radiation. The population around the plant got a dose around 0.01mSv: What we know is a problem with nuclear accidents is iodine-131, is has a HALF-LIFE of 8 DAYS: Or the lady who said: "My 18 year old grandchild had cancer", WHAT - she was born in, 2003 or 2004? 24-25 years AFTER the accident? Ionizing radiation has (in contrast to the popular myth) never been shown to cause hereditary effects in humans: (s. Or bullshit remarks like, "will if affect the DNA of my children". TMI killed no one, but the burning of fossile fuels and biomass kills 8,7 million people EVERY year: ĭo you think Netflix will ever make a show about that? The "documentaty" does not put radiation into perspective with other dangers. There has been no increases in cancer from Fukushima, an absolutely worst-case time three for a light water reactor. I fell down my chair when they started talking about concequences like: "10.000 deaths, and 100.000 incidents of cancer". Knowing that in Fukushima we had 3 BWR's melt down with corresponding hydrogen explosions, and even then, radiation killed no-one: Īnd no-one should have been evacuated in Japan:
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