mutant daisies growing near Fukushima power plant

[Octafish]

30. Maybe it was radiation from Three Mile Island in 1979.

You might have noticed the power company did a good job containing coverage of the fallout.

THE CONTINUING CENSORSHIP Of THE NUCLEAR ISSUE

Project Censored, July 18, 2015

Three Mile Island, the worst accident in the history of the atomic energy program in the United States, has proven to be a blessing for pro-nuclear propagandists.

Using the phrase “no one died at TMI,” the nuclear power industry has embarked on a nationwide campaign to resell nuclear power to the American public. Slick television commercials and full page ads in magazines and newspapers solicit public and press support for nuclear power.

America’s Electric Energy Companies directed its campaign right at the media with an advertisement in Columbia Journalism Review (March/April 1981) headlined “Three Mile Island has made nuclear power even safer.”

The campaign appears to be working. More than a half dozen nuclear-oriented stories were nominated for “best censored” of 1980. Following are the highlights of some of these stories.

CONTINUED...

http://www.projectcensored.org/3-the-continuing-censorship-of-the-nuclear-issue/

So, yeah. It wasn't Fukushima.