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Originally Posted by 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.
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I don't see anyone claiming that. They were just told to cut any safety corner at all to speed production and make it cheaper. To build any reactor with no containment building and the building was made of wood, yea maybe they cut a few too many corners. Three Mile Island was a string of poor decisions. Not one death.
Fukushima was a entire series of off the scale natural disasters more extreme than their wildest dreams. One of the biggest earthquakes on the planet, did not hurt the reactors. One of the worst Tsunamis ever did. And then the backups and fail safes were just under-engineered to withstand the waves. They too were willing to save money and design to a level all the experts thought were adequate. As often happens, the experts were just wrong. It will likely be the most expensive cleanup in history.