On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:10:57 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ken Davey" quickly quoth:
What are the long-term stats? Were those two years' stats within the range of say, 10 or 20 year statistics? Or was the year after an anomaly which would truly point the finger at TMI rads?
-- Don't take life so seriously. You'll never get out of it alive. --Elbert Hubbard
It also states
"A settlement of a lawsuit over economic losses from the accident created the Three Mile Island Public Health Fund to commission and underwrite research exploring radiation-cancer links near the plant. In
1990-1991, a team of researchers from Columbia University, supported by the fund, published two articles on cancer rates before and after the accident in the population living within 10 miles of the plant. Using hospital records, the group found that newly diagnosed cancer cases rose 64 percent, from 1,722 in the period 1975-1979, to 2,831 in 1981-1985. Substantial increases occurred in the number of cases of leukemia, lung cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and in all cancers in persons under age
radiation dose levels and cancer risk. >> scaremongering.
Here is a couple versions of the original Harpers story. much less sensational.
google: What happened when a teenager tried a dangerous experiment in his back yard
If you want to read about a very interesting nuclear reactor accident then search a little for something called the SL1 accident and you will learn the story of a man impaled by a control rod when it exploded and jettisons from the reactor.
search a little for something called the SL1 accident
exploded and jettisons from the reactor.
That article doesn't go into much detail. It only mentions that there are more details. It leaves out the part about the 3rd man who was found with the control rod (that he had lifted too far) impaling him to the CEILING of the reactor compartment! I learned first about this as a Nuke in the Navy. It was part of our training.
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