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 D. Parks, is continuing to speak out today about the crisis.
The plant continued operating for decades before it was shut down just three years ago, in the fall of 2019, according to the Office of Nuclear Energy. The nuclear power plant was the site of the most serious nuclear accident on U.S. soil, the government office writes.
“A combination of equipment failure and operator error led to the partial meltdown of the power plant’s Unit 2 reactor that resulted in the release of a small amount of radioactive material,” the Office of Nuclear Energy wrote.
Here’s what you need to know:
Parks was a Missouri native who was hired as a cleanup supervisor by the Bechtel Corp and moved his family to Middletown, Pennsylvania for the job. The Bechtel Corp was hired to conduct the cleanup operation by Metropolitan Edison, which was supervised by the government’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Parks was trained as a nuclear operator by the U.S. Navy, according to The Guardian.
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