Three decades after a partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility, we’ll look at the incident and its broader impact on U.S. nuclear policy with J. Samuel Walker. He’s the historian for the Nuclear Regulator Commission and author of the book Three Mile Island.

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When I was listening to your guest, he seemed to make sense. Then I read this:
http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/04/post-4.html
and realized all the facts he left out of his case: dire health consequences; deaths; ignored information; miscalculations; and much more
There was quite a lot of omitted evidence and spin in what your guest presented.
No reflection on you, Leonard: thank you for pointing out his relationship to the NRC.
Mr. Walkler sounds like a classic govt apologist. So many journalists covered this; where are they?
Please bring up the recent article upon the 30 anniversary by Harvey Wasserman that there were indeed deaths and major impact on individuals from the incident at 3-mile island:
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2009/1733
How did Hollywood filmakers conclude such an accident was higly probable and not the NRC?
How did his book come to be published?
Is it an attempt to create positive PR by writing history while we as a society are deciding on our alternative energy future, and so deciding on trillions of dollars of future investment?
GE is one of the largest credit card companies in the US, as well as being a leading a player in the nuclear energy plant industry.
Should we assume on the safe side that the corrupted regulatory system of the financial sector has a twin in nulcear regulatory system?
And should we be equally suspicious of any employees in the nuclear regulatory agencies?
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