Three Mile Island accident
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Oct 29, 2026
Christopher W. GradyGUEST
It's a very similar dynamic.
Christopher W. GradyGUEST
And there are probably arguments to be made on either side, but there are similar dynamics in place from the nuclear power industry perspective, right? And particularly in the United States or Germany for that matter, where we live on, oh my gosh, the Three Mile Island, so we can never invest in that.
Christopher W. GradyGUEST
Oh my gosh, Fukushima, oh my gosh, you know, name it.
Christopher W. GradyGUEST
Where if you do the homework, if you do the math and you look at the advances in technology right now, particularly in the SMR world, it still costs a lot of money to build the big plants, but the smaller plants are safer and the technology is really advancing and are cheaper.
Arvin AshHOST
This could risk a meltdown.
Arvin AshHOST
Failure of this aspect is what happened in highly publicized nuclear accidents at Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Three Mile Island.
Arvin AshHOST
Traditional nuclear reactors typically use the same moderating regular water or heavy water to transfer the heat away from the core.
Arvin AshHOST
Using regular water is cheap and simple.
BonerwoodHOST
reaction zero have died in the history of nuclear power zero have fucking died from the
BenderHOST
reactions cold war era fears because it was so it was so much misinformation about nuclear shit and then he had like chernobyl three mile island
BonerwoodHOST
because it will work that's the problem but again
BenderHOST
Chernobyl was built by fucking communists, and it's pretty much proven that they can't build shit that's worth a damn.
Ed RempelHOST
Nuclear power is the cleanest example.
Ed RempelHOST
In the 1970s, the world looked at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and said, never again.
Ed RempelHOST
We didn't build the plants, we didn't build the grid, and 50 years later, we're still paying for it.
Ed RempelHOST
The only thing exponential is the cost of slowing down.
Sean HaganHOST
Yes, so to clarify that point more, during the 1970s, you know, we had a pretty big nuclear build out, right? And we got to more than 70 nuclear reactors, you know, and by then things started to slow down once we hit that 70 mark.
Sean HaganHOST
You had the Three Mile Island disaster with the partial nuclear meltdown.
Sean HaganHOST
We saw things around the world happening as well, right? We saw a meltdown in Japan.
Sean HaganHOST
We saw a meltdown in Russia.
Sean HaganHOST
But, you know, we've started to stage a comeback, and that's where you hear this term nuclear renaissance.
Sean HaganHOST
You know, some previous closed nuclear facilities are coming back online, and there's also a lot of experimentation.
Sean HaganHOST
We mentioned Constellation Energy earlier in their project with Google, and they're actually bringing back Three Mile Island's Unit 1 reactor to supply electricity to Microsoft to meet its AI energy demands.
Sean HaganHOST
But there's also folks that are making smaller cores and reactors.
Jonah Van BourgHOST
I would love it if we were doing what China's doing on the modular reactor front.
Jonah Van BourgHOST
It's kind of, to me, the most... idiotic policy-owned goal of the last hundred years, in my opinion, well, I mean, maybe since World War II, was to just take a look at Three Mile Island and say, you know what, we're just going to give up on literally the solution to climate change, the solution to all of our future energy needs.
Jonah Van BourgHOST
We have developed the technology, you know, during the Manhattan Project.
Jonah Van BourgHOST
Let's just abandon it all because of one totally unrelated mismanaged disaster that didn't actually hurt anybody.
Jim WebbHOST
They completely freak out.
Jim WebbHOST
You get, you know, Three Mile Island, Fukushima, you know, on and on and on.
Jim WebbHOST
But at any given time, you have, gosh, dozens, if not hundreds of little nuclear reactors floating all around the world.
Jim WebbHOST
And sometimes they're getting shot at.
Libby HaleviHOST
My name is Libby Halevy.
Libby HaleviHOST
I am the producer and host, as well as a survivor of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island from just one mile away.
Libby HaleviHOST
So I know what can happen when those nuclear so-called experts get it wrong.
Libby HaleviHOST
This week, we celebrate a milestone, the 800th episode of Nuclear Hot Seat.
Libby HaleviHOST
Today is Tuesday, October 27, 2026, and here's this week's very special look at Nuclear Hot Seat at 800.
Libby HaleviHOST
All of it nuclear news from a different perspective.
Libby HaleviHOST
You'd think that after having been one mile away from the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island when it happened, I would have jumped right into being an anti-nuclear activist.
Libby HaleviHOST
Well, I tried, but it didn't work because I had too much post-traumatic stress from the experience.
Lawrence SmithHOST
Plus promised new jobs, new investment in the community.
Lawrence SmithHOST
Chip and Mark, you remember when nuclear power was going to be the next big thing and then Three Mile Island happened and Chernobyl happened and a movie came out called The China Syndrome, and that scared everybody off nuclear power.
Lawrence SmithHOST
But Chip, it appears to be making a comeback.
Chip HutchesonHOST
Well, at least it does on paper.
DJ DilworthHOST
You're still two behind me, Simon.
DJ DilworthHOST
What was the name of the nuclear power station that suffered a disaster in April 1986? Fukushima, Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island? That was Chernobyl.
DJ DilworthHOST
It was Chernobyl.
DJ DilworthHOST
Surely it was Chernobyl.
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