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I would have to look up all the particulars about how Fukushima basically ended up being Japan's 911. There were a few state actors by way of private companies that were involved - the usual players. If you are going to look, use a search engine like Yandex. I have found the least amount of censoring there.
I think Three Mile Island was a case of huge negligence that led to lots of nuclear plant regulations afterwards. There are aspects of that fiasco that are still not fully disclosed. I am sure it has to do with liability actions that can still be pursued in some way. The public's right to know is always trumped by someone's bottom line. Chernobyl, from what I was told, was some idiots trying to run experiments off the books and it went horribly wrong. Since they were already in trouble for being idiots and playing with loaded guns, they were not timely in reporting the problem and getting the help they needed before things spun out of control.
Three Mile Island was an info op to destroy clean nuclear fuels viability. The were already ramping up the climate change rhetoric and zero carbon bullshit Im sure was already planned.
The China Syndrome came out on March 16,1979
Three Mile Island occurred on March 28, 1979
When the film was first released on 16 March 1979, nuclear power executives soon lambasted the picture as being "sheer fiction" and a "character assassination of an entire industry". Then twelve days after its launch, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Thanks for the information. Never looking into it all that closely and I have no doubt you are correct. There were problems at the plant that interested parties wanted to exploit for their benefit - all for the reasons you stated.
Have you seen pictures of the "elephant's foot?" It's fucking haunting.
Yes, I saw that. The crazy part is that the area actually gives tours. The place is still radioactive. That fact that anyone would want to visit Chernobyl as a tourist destination I find very puzzling. The Top Gear guys made a road trip contest to Chernobyl back in 2014. It was wild. Also, there are a few people that refused to move out of the area. They still live there growing their own food and have not grown another head or something else. Go figure.
Makes you wonder just how many things the government lies about. We already live with background radiation, maybe slightly elevated levels aren't as bad as they claim.