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Previously Untold Story of Three Mile Island
Nuclear Accident
News release - March 28, 1999

        Philadelphia--"Today, the 20th anniversary of the historical Three Mile
Island nuclear accident, it is time to publicly reveal how overzealous
antinuclear activists interfered in the nuclear technology project and forced
the power company to change the design of the nuclear station and eliminate a
super-sized emergency cooling system that could have contained two serious
accidents simultaneously. The design change put the nuclear station at risk
for the disaster that actually happened" said Stephen Miles Sacks, Ph.D.,
today.
        In 1971 Dr. Sacks was the investigator/policy advisor to the Attorney General
(J. Shane Kramer in the Administration of Governor Milton J. Shapp) who
investigated and formally recommended that the state should not legally
intervene to stop construction of the plant - despite such demands by
antinuclear protesters.
        Today, Dr. Sacks questions the wisdom of citizen participation in science
policy decisions." The democratization of science has led to disasters on
numerous occasions. We must rely on our professional scientists and science
administrators who are citizens too and just as concerned or more so with the
environment and public safety as are other citizens. That does not mean that
ordinary citizens should not have formal opportunity to express their views
and to have formal and thorough consideration of them. It does mean once the
policy process has considered such views and decisions are made, vigilance
should be taken to guard against actions by disgruntled citizens to disrupt or
damage science and technology projects. The larger arena of political change
is the proper route for such protests, not interference in the science and
technology projects per se," said Dr. Sacks.
        The full story is given in the article on the website: <A HREF="SCIPOLICY
WEBSITE">http://members.aol.com/scipolicy/science2/index.htm</A>


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