Gischel was recommended for a psychological evaluation. When Parks and two other employees, King and Ed Gischel, took their concerns to higher-ups at GPU and the NRC, they were dismissed. The crane was supposed to lift the head off the reactor to expose the core according to Park and the series, if the faulty crane malfunctioned and dropped its load on to the core, the resulting damage could have caused a radioactive leak on par with the China Syndrome. Parks was particularly alarmed by rushed, off-books repairs to a polar crane damaged by radioactivity. Bechtel received funds upon completion of individual tasks, incentivizing the company and its hirer, General Public Utilities (GPU), to cut corners and ignore NRC regulations. The cleanup was risky, arduous and behind schedule.
At the time, Bechtel was the largest private construction company in the world, with numerous Reagan administration officials on its board.
Parks, a Missouri native and navy-trained nuclear operator who provides colorful, refreshingly straight-shooting narration throughout the series, moved to Middletown, Pennsylvania – the town directly adjacent to Three Mile Island – to work on cleanup three years after the accident. “We should be able to look at the people who risk everything in order to save communities from a potential disaster.” “We should know about these stories,” he added. “We dodged a bullet a second time, and it was entirely due to the fact that Rick Parks and Larry King stood up. “While a lot of people know about the disaster, they don’t know about what happened in the cleanup phase and how close we were to another disaster,” Davidson told the Guardian. In its second half, Meltdown, directed by Kief Davidson, homes in on the story of Rick Parks, a cleanup supervisor turned whistleblower on the Bechtel Corp, the company hired to conduct the billion-dollar cleanup by Metropolitan Edison and supervised by the government’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). But the story of Three Mile Island did not end with the five-day red-alert saga – not for the workers tasked with safely cleaning up the molten reactor, nor for the surrounding community, disillusioned and furious. The first two of Meltdown’s four 45-minute episodes focus on this chilling near-miss, as well as the obfuscation and confusion that greatly eroded public trust in nuclear power. Since 2017, Be Calm on Ahway Island®podcast has provided short and soothing episodes, each featuring a kid-friendly meditation followed by an original story with a positive message.That is the story of Three Mile Island that most Americans will find in the history textbooks, if they have heard of the accident at all. We incorporate teaching of self-soothing techniques to empower children to manage their own emotions. Our stories and characters are intended to model these values and to provide examples of solutions to everyday situations to help grow children’s confidence and positive behaviors. Our stories and meditations teach the importance of kindness, inclusion, acceptance, empathy, gratitude, curiosity, appreciation, emotional intelligence, and self-regulation.
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