Meltdown: Three Mile Island
Whistleblowers, residents, journalists, regulators and others recount the events, controversies, and lingering effects of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. The documentary, anchored by Government Accountability Project client Richard Parks, who came forward to expose the willful disregard of safety risks in the US’s most infamous nuclear power plant, reveals the necessity of whistleblowers in keeping the public safe and corporations accountable. It also tells the story of the potential costs whistleblowers face for their moral courage, demonstrating the necessity of stronger protections for whistleblowers so that brave citizens like Parks don’t have to watch their lives fall apart because of their commitment to the truth.
Meltdown: Three Mile Island
Whistleblowers, residents, journalists, regulators and others recount the events, controversies, and lingering effects of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. The documentary, anchored by Government Accountability Project client Richard Parks, who came forward to expose the willful disregard of safety risks in the US’s most infamous nuclear power plant, reveals the necessity of whistleblowers in keeping the public safe and corporations accountable. It also tells the story of the potential costs whistleblowers face for their moral courage, demonstrating the necessity of stronger protections for whistleblowers so that brave citizens like Parks don’t have to watch their lives fall apart because of their commitment to the truth.
Resources for Potential Whistleblowers
Thinking of blowing the whistle? Our government’s integrity depends on the commitment and effort of millions of workers around the world. If you have seen wrongdoing, abuse, or fraud at your workplace, you could be the difference between justice and irreparable harm.
Government Accountability Project works with whistleblowers throughout their entire disclosure process. Here are resources we publish to inform and empower employees of conscious by offering guidance about their legal rights to blow the whistle and practical advice for making disclosures about wrongdoing in the safest and most effective ways possible:
Call to Action
We are the international leader in whistleblower advocacy
Government Accountability Project is the international leader in whistleblower protection — from advocacy to litigation, with its roots in nuclear safety. In one of its first major legal campaigns, the organization took on several cases of nuclear power plant workers revealing massive safety violations at multiple plants, marking three of them as beyond repair.
The Three Mile Island leak and clean-up had the potential to have disastrous consequences if not for our whistleblower client who witnessed wrongdoing and spoke up about it at great personal risk. Our mission is to defend these whistleblowers and help them prevent disasters that would cause irreparable harm to us all.
Donate now to fund today’s truth-tellers and inspire tomorrow’s truth-tellers to step forward.
Protecting Whistleblowers
Whistleblowers are the best sources of information about serious abuses of public trust and when they are not protected, we are all vulnerable. As essential as disclosures are, so is the whistleblower. It is increasingly true that it sometimes takes individual employees willing to risk retaliation to keep us safe from physical, economic and environmental harm because those with enormous political and economic power can fail to use it responsibly at the expense of the public good. Our institutions often fail us, and when that happens, it’s our fellow workers who have our backs.
That is why Government Accountability Project is dedicated to protecting these brave people by not only our litigation of their cases, but through our legislative initiatives as well. If there are already laws and systems in place to protect whistleblowers before retaliation happens, more workers will come forward with important information to stop the worst before it happens.
The Issues
From the time of Richard Park’s disclosures about Three Mile Island up until today, a variety of nuclear safety, climate science and Technology Whistleblowers have stepped forward, all facing the risk of retaliation. This is a terrifying reality, because with a sure future of retaliation, fewer and fewer employees of conscience are likely to come forward with their disclosures. However, now more than ever it is imperative that the integrity of the corporations that hold the health of people and our planet in their hands remains intact. To better understand what Government Accountability Project is doing to protect whistleblowers and how you can help further scientific integrity, check out the resources below.
Resources for holding the Nuclear Power and Environmental Industries accountable:
- Corporate Whistleblower’s Survival Guide Published
- Supporting Science Whistleblowers
- We Must Repair and Restore Scientific Integrity In Government: Our Recommendations to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- As Climate Change Creates a True Public Health Emergency, Trump Administration Quashes Federal Climate Program and Exiles Its Director
- Environment, Energy, and Climate Change Program
Related Nuclear Power Whistleblower Stories
Learn More About What Government Accountability Project is Doing to Protect Whistleblowers and Scientific Integrity Through Our Legislative Efforts
TBA Our upcoming Blog Series on Meltdown: Three Mile Island. We will explore some of the main issues and questions that arise in the series and provide more information on the rights of whistleblowers in the nuclear power industry today.
Screenings & Discussions
We are eager to collaborate with your organization to host screenings or discussions about Meltdown. To inquire about educational licenses or about inviting Rick Parks, other nuclear whistleblowers, Parks’ lawyer Tom Devine and others on Government Accountability Project’s legal team, and the Hollywood producers of Meltdown to participate in a screening or discussion event, please send inquiries to [email protected].