With all the bad news these days, we're happy to start the program bringing you good news reports.
• Proof of reliability of renewable energy in California,
• Right-to-repair legislation nationwide, and
• A Mexican ban on GMO corn.
Three good news stories this week!

Why is Three Mile Island relevant now? What is happening there? Is it really going to reopen? What does Microsoft have to do with it? Learn why nuclear energy being clean is a myth. Everyone in the country is within 200 miles from a nuclear plant.

Our guests are Eric Epstein of TMI Alert and Dr. Heidi Hutner, Director-Producer of the documentary “Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island”. They have a lot of information, from scientists as well as from people who live there.

Very soon after the disaster, March 28 1979, Joyce Corradi, Patty Longnecker, Helen Hocker, and Mary Stamos Osborn formed Concerned Mothers and Women of Three Mile Island. They say they ”were never told the truth- some people still don't want to believe it”. You will see their testimony in Heidi Hutner's documentary.

There is a lot of proof of the harmful and deadly effects of the TMI accident, just as there are at Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi, but it takes a show like Eco-Logic and guests like Eric Epstein and Heidi Hutner to bring them to you. Corporations don't want to panic their stockholders. We'll bring as much proof to you as we can fit in a 55-minute show.

40 years ago Three Mile Island nuclear reactor number two, on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, had a partial meltdown. To this day it is the biggest nuclear power disaster in the U.S., but not the only one. There have been hundreds of under-reported accidents. Chernobyl (Ukraine 1986) and Fukushima Daiichi (Japan 2011) followed it years later, but TMI significantly changed people's perception of nuclear power -- obviously not enough as disasters still followed it.

Nuclear utilities try to keep news of disasters quiet, as they did successfully with the Millstone, Connecticut large radiation release a few years earlier. But a movie, "The China Syndrome" about a nuclear power plant disaster similar to what happened at TMI, had come out 12 days before. Starring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, and Michael Douglas, the disaster increased its box office, while the movie increased press coverage of TMI.

Both Metropolitan Edison, which operated TMI at the time, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) kept repeating "No one died at Three Mile Island" over and over until people believed it. They still are saying there were no adverse health effects, which is demonstrably false. Physicians for Social Responsibility had a series of lectures by Gordon K. MacLeod, the head of the Pennsylvania Dept. of Health at the time of the accident, in which he showed the stillbirth rate rising in the three counties downwind of TMI, while the rate went down in the rest of PA.

The accident was caused by a series of mechanical and human errors. It was luck, or more probably a technician's intuition rather than instructions from his manual, that kept TMI's hydrogen bubble from exploding.

Now corporations want to reopen TMI for the benefit of Microsoft's AI data centers. All other ways of providing energy, from renewable sources to efficiency, i.e. using less in the first place, to make more available, are being ignored. Peace groups throughout the world have been pointing out that nuclear power plants are a way to employ nuclear physicists to mask the fact that the goal is to build bigger and more powerful bombs.

This is an important show because the repercussions of all nuclear power plant accidents last for centuries afterward. The more we know, the better we can prepare, despite the denials of the corporations that own the plants.

As John Hall wrote in his song, "I Told You So", "There are many ways to boil water, but you picked the stupidest one".

Our music for you is Joseph Aronesty's song “Three Mile Island”.

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