Not quite. Three Mile Island experienced a complete meltdown. As with the other meltdowns, which occurred at well below the predicted incidence of meltdowns. No one was hurt and the reactor has now been completely dismantled.
The non-commercial plant in Ukraine, at Chernobyl, was covered with concrete because the economy of the USSR couldn't afford more immediate decommissioning. But no one was hurt. No nuclear plant has ever hurt anyone with its releases of radioactivity. Coal/electric plants generally release more radioactivity than commercial nuclear plants, which doesn't mean they aren't safe.
This article is the usual BS, probably driven by the perennial war on capitalism. Few people realized, because it isn't news the media want to publish, that there is no mode of electrical generation with a safety record close to nuclear generation. Few people know how easy it is to detect radiation. Technicians and engineers know the risks, and, out of self interest, pay attention.
Plant designs have gotten better and better, but the availability of oil and coal makes the economic choices - pay the environmentally class action parasites, or build another hydrocarbon plant, which will keep the tithing to Saudi interests coming an economic certainty. Nuclear plants are the future, with China building about eight new commercial power reactors each year for their own use. The West might, if we have anything to sell, be able to buy power from China or its allies. A return to agriculture may be in our futures because without efficient electrical energy production we cannot compete with countries whose electricity costs one fifth to one tenth what it costs us to produce it - not the cost to consumers, “which will necessarily skyrocket.” That was always the plan, and Obama told us all before he was elected.
the reactor has now been completely dismantled.
***Bowl Sheet.
Chernobyl... no one was hurt.
***Again, Bowl Sheet.
Coal/electric plants generally release more radioactivity than commercial nuclear plants, which doesn’t mean they aren’t safe.
***Standard bowl sheet. Would you build your house on top of Chernobyl or Three Mile Island if they gave you the land for free? I wouldn’t. I’d be more than happy to build on top of any coal plant.