by Anura Guruge
on May 7, 2022
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No question; like so many of their recent efforts, this is a good Netflix documentary. I have no quarrels with it. I think it tells the story as to what happened.
The problem is that ‘Three Mile Island’ accident happened in 1979 — 43 years ago. That, quite literally was THEN, & we are now over four decades on. Just for reference, in 1979 we did NOT have PCs, the Internet, smartphones or Facebook. It was a very different world. I know. I was there. I was 26 years old. I was working for IBM. That, I can assure you, was yesterday’s technology.
Never mind advances in nuclear technology, our computer technology has advanced so much since then that we can have nuclear plants that are considerably safer.
That is my point.
Early jet planes were unsafe. But, we didn’t stop trying to build better jets. Now we have (bar the occasional dud as in the 737 Max) incredibly safe jet planes. Ditto, nuclear plants. Do NOT bring up the unfortunate Fukushima disaster. We don’t get many tsunamis in the U.S.
This is why I am so happy & proud that MY U.K. has started to rethinking its nuclear power future. Way to go.
We need nuclear power plants. To shy away from them is shortsighted.
So, just as Europe has re-embarked on revamping its nuclear power strategy we get this documentary. The timing sucks.
