Defending the nuclear discipline

摘要

If you keep tabs on nuclear in popular culture, you know that Netflix recently released a four-part series entitled Meltdown: Three Mile Island. Nominally listed as a "documentary," the series starts out with a generally accurate chronology of the 1979 event. However, it soon veers off the rails into an uncorroborated conspiracy theory of how the cleanup team risked "wiping out the entire East Coast" in their haste to complete the job on time. Nuclear Newswire has done a fantastic job of unpacking the distortions and outright falsehoods in "Meltdown: Drama disguised as a documentary" (https://www.ans.org/news/article-4016/).