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Longterm Victims of Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown

To this day the families of those harmed by radiation at Three Mile Island have been denied the right to make their case in federal court.

The Legacy of Three Mile Island: It Could Happen Again At Any Time HARVEY WASSERMAN,  BUZZFLASH, 27 March 2010, As radiation poured from 3 Mile Island 31 years ago this weekend, utility executives rested easy.  They knew that no matter how many people their errant nuke killed, and no matter how much property it destroyed, they would not be held liable. Today this same class of executives demands untold taxpayer billions to build still more TMIs.  No matter how many meltdowns they cause, and how much havoc they visit down on the public, they still believe they’re above the law.

Fueled with more than $600 million public relations slush money, they demand a risk-free “renaissance” financed by you and yours. As if! In 1980 I reported from central Pennsylvania on the dead and dying one year after.  Dozens of interviews documented a horrifying range of radiation-related diseases including cancer, leukemia, birth defects, still births, malformations, sterility, heart attacks, strokes, emphysema, skin lesions, hair loss, a metallic taste and much more.

As reported by the Baltimore News-American among others, such ailments also ripped through the animal population.  (http://www.ratical.com/radiation/KillingOurOwn/ ). To this day no one knows how much radiation was released at the 1979 TMI accident, where it went or whom it harmed.  The official line that “no one was killed” is arguably the biggest lie ever told in US industrial history.  It parallels Soviet lies about the 1986 catastrophe at Chernobyl, whose health effects continue to skyrocket.  A devastating summary report issued by the New York Academy of Sciences (Yablokov, Nesterenko & Nesterenko:  Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People & the Environment) says at least 980,000 people are likely to die from the fallout.

That would be a small fraction of the casualties had 9/11 terrorists dived into the two reactors at New York’s Indian Point instead of hitting the World Trade Center.  In a time of deep financial stress, it also counts that the TMI accident turned a $900 million asset into a $2 billion liability in a matter of minutes.

Chernobyl has cost Belarus and Ukraine at least $500 billion and counting.  And the price tag on a major meltdown anywhere in the US is virtually beyond calculation.  Thus those who think a flood of new nukes will flow unimpeded into the American pocketbook haven’t been paying attention: ……….

………..To this day the families of those harmed by radiation at Three Mile Island have been denied the right to make their case in federal court.

The Legacy of Three Mile Island: It Could Happen Again At Any Time | BuzzFlash.org

March 29, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1 | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive