Just In: Reactor shutdown at Three Mile Island

many threads on this.

well, tell us what the hell is going on, moron.

"(CNN) -- The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant shut down unexpectedly Thursday when a reactor coolant pump failed, federal regulators said."

hmmmmm. "reactor coolant pump".... can you say: "meltdown"?

"reactor collant pump shutdown"

nothing to here, folks, move along now. right, just move along...

6 hours after the fact and everybody knows nuthin?

hello, hello. calling 3 mile island. is anyone there?
come in 3 mile island. are you there?....

"Thursday’s shutdown at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island was the second in as many months. Government regulators and plant officials say it poses no threat to public health or safety. Operator Exelon Generation Co. says no detectable levels of radiation escaped."

o.k., well it looks like the government has everything
under control. i'm just glad that our guys are so much
smarter than those TECO guys.

it's incredible to me that all of those lines don't
have built-in back-up pumps that kick in whenever one goes out.
maybe these people really are morons?

Riiiiiiiiight.


Also the government is not onsite. Exelon's workers are. I'm sure they're ready for every contingency...just like they were last time at TMI.

this old decrepit nuclear power plant at 3 mile island
is pumping out 825 megawatts of power, continuous, 24/7.

there ain't nuthin gonna stop nuclear power folks.

in spite of the fact that all that routine cooling water
is radioactive. so, what's really up with all those shapely
steam chimneys, anyway?

and, the reactor boiler water is really really radioactive.

so, 3 mile island just blew a load all over Pennsylvania.

maybe we should start calling these incidents "the Pennsylvania facial"?

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