Three Mile Island (TMI): Nuclear Spring: A Legacy of Lies
/Arnie Gundersen, the nuclear engineer with Fairewinds Energy Education Nonprofit, spent one week at the end of March in the Harrisburg Pennsylvania area for a series of events observing the 40-years since the meltdown at TMI. Arnie was invited to present the keynote at Penn State’s 40th commemoration of the Three Mile Island disaster that was filmed by C-Span on March 27, 2019. Prior to uploading the filmed presentation to C-Span, the videographers and crew also professionally edited Arnie’s PowerPoint slides into the film itself.
During his presentation, Arnie discussed how the cultural links between the nuclear industry and the governments invested in nuclear power make it inevitable that the cover-ups of the magnitude of the TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima meltdowns will occur.
When the Fukushima Daiichi reactors began to meltdown on March 11, 2011, Arnie and I saw firsthand that the government of Japan was deliberately attempting to hide the truth of this tragedy from its own people using similar coverup tactics that the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) applied to the TMI and Chernobyl meltdowns.
When Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 exploded, Arnie and I made a commitment to each other to speak the truth and not let the people of Japan be mistreated by their government in the ongoing pursuit of atomic power reactors and their inseparable liaison with nuclear weapons.
A Legacy of Lies, the Penn State keynote that Arnie presented on March 27th is yet another example of Fairewinds’ continued dedication to speak truth to power, despite the fact that the nuclear power industry has vehemently attempted to discredit Fairewinds’ work.
Prior to uploading the filmed presentation to C-Span, the videographers and crew also professionally edited Arnie’s PowerPoint slides into the film itself.
