And, if you wanted to discredit US nukes you’d do exactly what the nimrods did at TMIsland. The operating room was staffed by ex-Navy nukes, AKA cowboys. As former commanders of subs they are used to being treated as gods, do no wrong. So, when something went “bling” instead of doing exactly what the manufacturer said to do (Babcock&Wilcox) they went cowboy and re-routed water in ways sure to screw things up. And, it really did.
Nukes are grossly overdesigned. Extremely complicated instrumentality-wise, but real simple operationally: keep putting cooler water over the nuclear fuel until it cools down. If you do that, everything will be OK. It’s not even as complicated as “steer into the skid” is on a car.
US nukes are safe, so long as you RTFM!
I say this with 20+ years of design, construction, operation of the darned things.
No argument from me.