Parallel Realities
The news reports were just coming out.
A serious accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania had damaged the core and was still being assessed and dealt with by engineers.
Meanwhile, me and some of my friends were having a pot-party.
Technicians frantically worked to try and understand the situation.
Paul and Joan were falling in love, although they didn’t know it yet.
The incident at Three Mile Island would halt nuclear power plant development for decades, although we didn’t know it yet.
The two young people were both in relationships with others, affairs that would meltdown before the summer was over.
After a while, the Three Mile Island reactor was finally stabilized.
Paul and Joan ended their previous relationships and eventually married each other.
The Three Mile Island facility was eventually decommissioned at a final cost of over 2 billion dollars.
Paul and Joan's divorce, while painful, didn’t cost nearly that much.
2 Comments:-
BobTheScientist said...
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Professor Batty said...
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3MI, I remember it well. I was 3 months into grad school in Boston and came home in the evening to find my landlord glued to the TV. "There's a good chance we're all done for" was his cheery greeting. Almost exactly 7 years later we were living in Old England and downwind from Chernobyl in the opposite direction. It was 4x further away but blurfed out a lot more fizzy material.
I had just finished reading We Almost Lost Detroit and was terrified, my friends were oblivious.
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