Nuclear Disaster: The Aftermath Of The Three Mile Island

Register to read the introduction… The accident showed people how groups of people under lots of stress, react and make decisions from under it. Many people think that the accident went so far because operators made incorrect decisions because of the large amounts of information that was given to the during the accident. The equipment that was used at the plant was also used at other power plants and were shutdown due to the accident. The cleanup for the accident took almost a decade because of the radiation that got out in the containment building where the reactor core was at. It took nearly six years before a power plant tried to get permission to build another nuclear plant or have another reactor put at one of the plants already built. The training that was given before was drastically changed because of the accident. They were now trained har on figuring out the emergency and had to go through a checklist to make sure the reactor core was getting cooled off enough. The Union of Concerned Scientists had wanted Three Mile Island as well as other nuclear power plants to be shutdown before the accident happened. The community claimed that radiation had gotten out into the environment. People claimed that they had been vomiting, having nausea, hair loss, and skin rashes …show more content…
The governor at the time, RIchard Thornburgh, urged all pregnant women and those with small children to leave the area because he was going to call for the closure of local schools. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission began talks of having to evacuate everyone in the area of Three Mile Island. President Carter went to the area to show everyone that the area was safe. Alot of newspaper articles went out telling about the accident and showing what had happened. The articles made the accident look extremely worse than the accident really