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When my daughters got their drivers licenses I told them that they could pick any car they wanted I could afford provided it wasn't a German car.

The only reason Fukushima is one of the world's worst nuclear disasters is in human history is because it got hit by something its safety systems weren't designed handle.

On a similar note: one of my sisters wrote a paper about the medical care soldiers got during the Civil War when she was in HS. That is considered by those who don't understand what .58" ball does to someone as a horrific series of doctors saying "fuck it" and just chopping off limbs. Um...

Chernobyl is the result of the operators doing everything wrong. At Kyshtym some radioactive waste exploded because it wasn't stored properly. Windscale ... an air cooled reactor with hot graphite in it is a brilliant idea which can not possibly go wrong. At Three Mile Island some water got...

Not many because it was wisely located several miles away from the nearest town instead of being placed in one.

On the INES scale of severity Three Mile Island is tied for third while Fukushima is all by it's lonesome down in fifth place. The dubious honor of #1 goes to Chernobyl and the other two in the top five took place in 1957 back when "how to nuclear powerplant" was "I don't know, we're just...

Nuclear fission is one of the cleanest sources of energy we've got but we can't have that because radioactive waste is scary and when someone screws up or a natural disaster hits things like Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Three Mile Island happen. The least environmentally damaging I can think of...