On March 28, 1979, in a town in the center of Pennsylvania, a bizarre event occurred………….. Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island nuclear power reactor complex in Harrisburg underwent an improbable sequence of ‘accidents’. Later investigation revealed that critical valves had been illegally and manually closed before the event, preventing emergency cooling water from entering the reactor’s steam generator system. Within 15 seconds, emergency backup systems had brought the nuclear fission process to a stop. But a plant operator then violated all procedure and intervened to shutoff cooling water into the reactor core. The details of what happened next have been extensively documented elsewhere.

On August 3, 1979 in it’s official report on the event, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission posed sabotage or criminal negligence as one of six possible causes for the Three Mile Island event. But even after eliminating the other five possible causes, the Government refused to consider the possibility of sabotage seriously.

In the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, nuclear technology was threatening to become the most rapidly growing source for non-oil energy infrastructure in country after country, both in western europe and the developing world.

With regulatory changes in nuclear power plant construction in the United States after the Three Mile Island antinuclear hysteria adding years of delay in the completion of existing power plants, nuclear energy as an investment for America’s electric utility companies became prohibitive under the Volcker interest rate regime. After 1979, not one new nuclear reactor was ordered in the United States, and scores of half built or planned nuclear projects was cancelled midstream because of prohibitive financing costs. One of the most advanced sectors of the productive economy was allowed to die.

Originally posted by khunmoon

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