FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 27, 2022 Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival: Meltdown Three Mile Island Film Maker Q&A and Panel Discussion WHAT: This remote discussion about the riveting Netflix docuseries Meltdown and how the issues of nuclear safety remain current concerns and the efforts currently being advanced to strengthen legal protections for nuclear whistleblowers. This [...]
Looking Back at the Past to Protect the Future: Lessons from Meltdown: Three Mile Island Temperatures in Waco, Texas hit 108 degrees Fahrenheit this year, shattering the previous record of 104 degrees reached in 1917, 1935 and 1978. This case is not an isolated event; in fact, 92 all-time U.S. record high temperatures were [...]
Nuclear Whistleblowers Protected the Public from Disaster. Now We Must Protect their Right to Speak Up. A new Netflix documentary released this spring, Meltdown: Three Mile Island, traced how brazen nuclear safety violations in the Three Mile Island (TMI) cleanup threatened a full meltdown that would’ve taken out the East Coast. It was prevented only [...]
Netflix’s Three Mile Island documentary highlights the real issue with nuclear power: people This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Rick Parks, and was originally published here. The partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in the US was one of those news stories that pierced through the haze of my childhood, [...]
Who is Rick Parks, the whistleblower from Three Mile Island? This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Rick Parks, and was originally published here. Netflix has a new docuseries to binge outlining the devastating nuclear event known as the Three Mile Island accident. We introduce you to Rick Parks, the whistleblower featured in [...]
Netflix’s ‘Meltdown: Three Mile Island’ tells the history of the infamous nuclear plant accident. Here’s how we covered it. This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Rickard Parks, and was originally published here. More than 40 years ago, central Pennsylvania was the site of what is considered the worst nuclear accident in the [...]
Rick Parks Now: Where Is the Three Mile Island Whistleblower Today? This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Rick Parks, and was originally published here. ick Parks is the Three Mile Island whistleblower featured on the Netflix limited series, who talks about the narrowly avoided crisis near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Parks, whose full name is Richard [...]
‘Meltdown: Three Mile Island’ Is a Methodical Look at an American Disaster: TV Review This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Rick Parks, and was originally published here. The partial meltdown at the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979 was a perfect coalescing of factors in two senses. [...]
Three Mile Island Is Still Radioactive, There Are Concerns This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Rick Parks, and was originally published here. Following HBO’s investigation into the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Netflix is delving into what has been dubbed the worst nuclear incident in US history. Three Mile Island is featured in [...]
Twitter Users Recollect Their Memories of the Nuclear Catastrophe in the Netflix Documentary Series ‘Meltdown: Three Mile Island’ This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Rick Parks, and was originally published here. Documentaries have been an integral part of Netflix’s library. They not only recreate the incident accurately. But Netflix has this strange [...]