All posts tagged with Three Mile Island

The U.S. hasn’t learned its lessons from the toxic mining of uranium

March 16, 2018 -
Posted by Edsel Cook

(Natural News) As the U.S. moves closer towards increasing domestic mining operations of uranium, an EcoWatch article warned that bitter lessons about unreliable regulation and volatile economic patterns will be forgotten. Inevitably, the public will end up paying for the profits of the uranium industry. In the past, the U.S. mined and milled radioactive uranium within its borders. […]

in: Corporations, Energy, Environment, Fukushima, Mining, Nuclear accidents, Nuclear weapons
CONFIRMED: Three Mile Island nuclear accident found to have significantly increased thyroid cancer in surrounding counties due to radioactive Iodine-131

June 5, 2017 -
Posted by Isabelle Z.

(Natural News) When a partial meltdown struck the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in March 1979, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission tried to downplay the incident. Much like the officials involved in the Fukushima meltdown, they said at the time that the radiation released into the environment was only in […]

in: Cancer, Energy, Environment, Health, Nuclear accidents, Science, Toxic chemicals

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