本文主要讲的是三哩岛事故变成公众恐慌和提供建议如何消除恐慌和重启核能运用程序在美国的范文，文章从多方面描述三哩岛事故及其作用的技术故障和公众关心的喷发。它本来是可以避免通过使用正确的措施来保护和宣传公民的真理,它不应该被美国核电发展的一个障碍。
Introduction
Purpose
This is to discuss the reason Three Mile Island accident transform into a public panic and offer advice on how to eliminate panic and restart nuclear power application in U.S.
Background Statement
The is based on the fact that U.S. civil nuclear power development remains stagnant ever since Three Mile Island incident, whereas nuclear power plant construction in other developed countries, such as France, increased drastically in the past years. The difference triggered by the accident is a topic worth discussing.
Thesis
Three Mile Island accident is not only a result of facility malfunction but also the confusion of public and the government experts. It could have been prevented by technical improvement and proper publication of the accident.
Preview
Public concerns play an important role in the transformation of the accident
Detailed instruction of protection can console the citizens
Design improvements must be made to ensure the danger goes to minimum
Internal Content
The nuclear accident of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant was the most serious one in U.S., the melting of a part of the core of TMI2 has brought serious consequences to the plant itself, leaving the whole core devastated and left for further investigation for years. However, the most serious “disaster” of the accident wasn’t the amount of radiation spread, but the public’s sharp fall of confidence and rocketing concerns to the nuclear power plant, which render almost total stagnancy of U.S. civil nuclear power development. The authorities were worried that incidents like Three Mile Island could happen again that they deny almost every demand of nuclear power plant construction, suggesting the distrustful to the energy from both civilians and governments.
The key factors of this phenomenon lie in various ways: first, the disaster itself was devastating enough to frighten ordinary people. The melting of the core and the fuel can have very serious results which are no more destructive than atomic bombs (the 1986 Chernobyl proved it); second, the whole thing could have been stopped if the operators of the power plant can take right and proper measures, but when facility malfunction is met with human errors, the whole thing has become unstable. This has become the prior concern of people not only in U.S., but all over the globe who is against nuclear energy application; fourthly, the world oil crisis forces U.S. to find a cheaper and effective energy, and nuclear power plant has been popular ever since, while things not suitable for supervision also happened; the last one, which is the most important factor, is that the public cannot get concrete firsthand information from the authority and the journalists. The government had kept people in confusion for a time long enough to trigger panic in neighboring areas, and the authorities have heat debate of the incident even among themselves. The documentary “Meltdown at the Three Mile Island” tells us that the two top experts argued about the consequence of hydrogen steam for such a long time, that the President and his envoy found it very hard to determine the situation. Of course, the government had learned a lot from the accident, but it cannot change the impression among citizens that the nuclear power is an extremely dangerous energy source that they should avoid it as much as possible.
We can see from the that the accident itself has caused limited danger to the environment and people’s life in Harrisburg, the panic results from people’s disbelief and confusion of the incident. If Metropolitan Edison and state government of Pennsylvania want to reduce the effect of the accident, they should have done the following:
Release concrete information to the public
Publish instruction of protection
Build up defense facility
For the first thing, they should make careful investigations of the incident and update the latest progress to the public through mass media every couple of hours a day, so that people will know they are safe, and there wouldn’t be so much panic. For many incidents which are not so serious in essence, public emotion could have been the catalyst of making things worse than they were, so ensuring the calm and peace of the public is of great importance.
Then, the government and the company should publish a set of instruction on protections against nuclear radiation, including detailed measures such closing windows, re-wash clothes that are exposed to outdoors, wear a mask, etc., so that people would know that nuclear radiation of this scale is not the end of the world, that people can still deal with them in proper ways.
From the technical aspect, Metropolitan Edison should send experts and workers immediately to examine and repair the facility, at least building up screens to prevent radiation from spreading to further places, offering guarantees on air and water quality.
After the Three Mile Island incident, the nuclear power development in U.S. remains stagnant because of strict censorship and public concerns, but it shouldn’t be the end of nuclear generator for it is indeed of low cost and high efficiency. If one day other resources have run out, nuclear power will still be running. So, if I were a designer of a new nuclear reactor, the following is what I will be doing:
Pick a construction site far away from residence area
Open regulation details, especially human operation to the public for them to inspect
Show the public the improvement on designs
For all the civilians, they fear the nuclear radiation and contamination the worst among all possible dangers brought by nuclear, so it is very essential for the site to be built somewhere as far as possible from the living area, which also ensures that when an accident breaks out, there will be enough time for people to react before they spread to residence.
In Three Miles Island accident, we see that human error also contributed to the final happening of the accident, operators could have saved the reactor by not interfere the reactor, but they mistakenly chose to intervene and eventually made the situation out of control. So, we must list very concrete and applicable regulation to prevent this from happening again, and the training of personnel and human operation is the most important thing to be published to citizens. People can have close inspection of the workers of power plant and get to know all possible information, so that they will have confidence in our management and operation.
Design improvements are made to raise the level of security of the nuclear reactor. The public and the government need to know the possibility of danger and compare them to Three Mile Island, and our job is to reduce the risk to the minimum. An improved design will include the following items: fire alarm, cooling water alarm, protection and isolation of fuel, etc. The Three Mile Island accident is resulted from cooling water system malfunction, and this will be our priority to show to the public.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the Three Mile Island accident and its impact are a blend of technical malfunction and eruption of public concern. It could have been avoided by using right means to protect and publicize citizens on the truth, and it should not be an obstacle of U.S. nuclear power development.
Reference
1.“Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident”, [Online]Available:
2.“Three Mile Island Acident”, [Online]Available:
3.“Meltdown at Three Mile Island”, [Online]Available: https://youtube/watch?v=0J7kHfBBBmk
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