[wayner]

Thats good statistics and the outcome was better, but my post was in response to the comments that seem to say that Russians are idiots and americans are so much better.

I think in the infancy of Nuclear power a lot was learned by anyone in the industry.

From accounts at that time three mile island was moments away form a runaway disaster wasn't it? I remember reading an internal analysis extensively when looking at what causes disaster of any type, and fortunately there was some quick thinking at three mile island that prevented a more severe crisis.

The lesson there was the perfect storm of failsafes failing.

Obviously compared to that ,Chernobyl got way out of hand for many reasons, but three mile island had the potential to have been much worse

I think the positive from all of this is the lessons learned that make the possibility of much safer nuclear power today than many decades ago.