Three Mile Island accident: Difference between revisions

==In popular culture==

On March 15, 1979, twelve days before the accident, the movie ''[[The China Syndrome]]'' premiered and was initially met with backlash from the nuclear power industry, claiming it to be "sheer fiction" and a "[[character assassination]] of an entire industry".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/18/archives/nuclear-experts-debate-the-china-syndrome-but-does-it-satisfy-the.html |title=Nuclear Experts Debate 'The China Syndrome' |last=Burnham |first=David |date=March 18, 1979 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=September 30, 2018}}</ref> In the film, television reporter Kimberly Wells ([[Jane Fonda]]) and her cameraman Richard Adams ([[Michael Douglas]]) secretly film a major accident at a nuclear power plant while taping a series on [[nuclear power]]. At one point in the film, an official tells Wells that an explosion at the plant "could render an area the size of the state of Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable".<ref>{{cite web |last=Southwick |first=Ron |title=Three Mile Island accident was eerily foreshadowed by a Hollywood blockbuster days before |url=https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/03/the-three-mile-island-accident-followed-a-hollywood-blockbuster.html |website=pennlive.com |date=March 16, 2019 |access-date=March 18, 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref> After the release of the film, Fonda began [[lobbying]] against nuclear power. In an attempt to counter her efforts, [[Edward Teller]], a [[nuclear physicist]] and long-time government [[Science Advisory Board|science adviser]] best known for contributing to the [[Teller–Ulam design]] breakthrough that made [[hydrogen bomb]]s possible, personally lobbied in favor of nuclear power.<ref>{{cite book |last=Benarde |first=Melvin A. |title=Our Precarious Habitat ... It's In Your Hands |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9O82L8QEZXcC&pg=PA256 |date=October 16, 2007 |publisher=Wiley InterScience |isbn=978-0-470-09969-8 |page=256}}</ref> Teller suffered a heart attack shortly after the incident and joked that he was the only person whose health was affected.<ref>[[q:Edward Teller]]</ref>

 

''Meltdown: Three Mile Island'' is a four-part [[docuseries]] released by [[Netflix]] on May 4, 2022.<ref>{{cite web |last=Tinubu |first=Aramide |title='Meltdown: Three Mile Island' Unpacks the Worst Nuclear Incident in America |url=https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/meltdown-three-mile-island-release-date-cast-news |website=Netflix.com}}</ref> The documentary recounts the events, controversies, and lingering effects of the accident.<ref name=IMDB>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19757508/ | title=Meltdown: Three Mile Island | publisher=[[IMDb]]}}</ref> Featured in the series are Rick Parks, a TMI nuclear engineer turned whistleblower; Lake Barrett, an independent energy consultant who served as the NRC's on-site director for the TMI-2 cleanup; Eric Epstein, chairman of TMI Alert, a nuclear watchdog organization in central Pennsylvania; [[Michio Kaku]], an American theoretical physicist; and residents of the communities affected by the event.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://variety.com/2022/tv/reviews/meltdown-three-mile-island-netflix-1235256986/ |title='Meltdown: Three Mile Island' Is a Methodical Look at an American Disaster: TV Review |last=D'Addario |first=Daniel |date=May 3, 2022 |publisher=Variety |access-date=January 13, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ans.org/news/article-4036/lake-barretts-realitygrounded-perspective-on-netflixs-drama-imeltdown-three-mile-islandi/ |title=Lake Barrett's Reality-Grounded Perspective on Netflix's Drama 'Meltdown: Three Mile Island' |date=June 10, 2022 |website=American Nuclear Society |publisher=Nuclear Newswire |access-date=January 13, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://whistleblower.org/meltdown-three-mile-island/ |title=Dodged a Bullet: How Whistleblowers Averted a Second US Nuclear Disaster |last=Horton |first=Adrian |date=May 5, 2022 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=January 13, 2023}}</ref><ref name=IMDB />