http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/04/03/716139/-Startling-revelations-on-Three-Mile-Island-nuclear-power?detail=email
What the Thompsons say they found out during their time inside TMI
suggests radiation releases from the plant were hundreds if not
thousands of times higher than the government and industry have
acknowledged -- high enough to cause the acute health effects documented
in people living near the plant but that have been dismissed by the
industry and the government as impossible given official radiation dose
estimates.
The Thompsons tried to draw attention to their findings and provide
health information for people living near the plant, but what they say
happened next reads like a John Grisham thriller.
They tell of how a stranger approached Randall Thompson in a grocery
store parking lot in late April 1979 and warned him his life was at
risk, leading the family to flee Pennsylvania. How they ended up in New
Mexico working on a book about their experiences with the help of Joy's
brother Charles Busey, another nuclear Navy vet and a former worker at
the Hatch nuclear power plant in Georgia. How one evening while driving
home from the store Busey and Randall Thompson were run off the road,
injuring Thompson and killing Busey. How a copy of the book manuscript
they were working on was missing from the car's trunk after the
accident. These allegations were detailed in several newspaper accounts back in 1981.
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