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Originally posted by Slight
Ok make Slight do research, fine! Construction on Washington Nuclear Plant-1 was discontinued in 1983. The three mile island incident occured in 1979 a year after the plant opened. So maybe they fixed the problems with the three mile island incident but wtf do I know
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I hadn't really thought there'd been much signficant nuke construction after TMI, and the incident was a watershed in a lot of people thinkining about nuclear safety. It was probably the first time that popular culture realized that a fission reactor might be something that you couldn't simply "turn off" if it became unruly. Chernobyl was still seven years in the future.
Nor was it my intent to make y'all do research; I just *remeber* when the TMI Unit 2 incident went down and how scary it was to those of us living somewhat nearby. Not that Limmerick isn't a hell of a lot closer.