After reading the Three Mile Island 29 Years Later: Nuclear Safety Problems Still Unresolved I was astonished by how people aren't taking more precautions in nuclear power plants. One would think that if there is a meltdown at a power plant that people would go in and look at what went wrong and then do what they could to prevent it from happening again. If people only knew what was going on in power plants in their communities I'm sure there would be plenty of petitions to shut down these plants.
Not fixing safety problems is a major issue and they definitely need to be addressed and fixed in nuclear power plants. Just about every time there is a major issue that happens in this world people come up with ways to stop it. For example, after 9/11 happened airport security was increased and rules became stricter about what a person can bring on a plane and all that security was increased because a couple of planes flew into some buildings. Now I'm not saying that 9/11 wasn't a big deal and that we should be concentrating more on power plants than airport security, but the odds of having another nuclear power plant meltdown has a higher chance of happening again than another 9/11 attack.
When it comes to things breaking down in a nuclear power plant they should be replaced instead of finding alternative ways to deal with it. I bet if the nuclear power plant workers would have replaced the cooling systems valves, that had broken 10 times prior to the meltdown, then maybe the meltdown of the three mile island would not have happened.
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