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   publius (publius@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 19:26:10 JST publius

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   • Adam Dawson

   @adamd @snowdusk

   You might be surprised to know that an accident, in a sense far more severe than what happened at Three Mile Island, happened at Pickering in August of 1983. One of the pressure tubes in Reactor 2 ruptured during full-power operation.

   It's never talked about, because the operators were able to bring the reactor quickly to a "safe" condition. There were no radiation exposures to personnel, or radioactive releases to the environment, beyond normal (minimal) operating levels.

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     Adam Dawson (adamd@social.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 19:26:11 JST Adam Dawson

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     @snowdusk @publius
     It does make you wonder. What I think I know is that newer technologies can be significantly safer. Such as a molten salt reactor. Publius if you do a show talking about Three Mile Island someone let me know so I'm sure not to miss it.

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     • Adam Dawson

     @adamd By the way I watched Three Mile Island. Now I'm not sure about nuclear power plants... 😓 My sister and her family live near the Pickering Nuclear Power Plant (and the Darlington ... don't know if they are the same)... and we are planning to move closer to them in the near future... yikes... IDK haha @publius Scary stuff