The Chernobyl accident occurred only 6 years later. If the cause was the same, that strongly suggests that the Three Mile Island incident was not a fluke.
Chernobyl was uniquely fucked up, in an incredibly unsafe reactor—RBMKs didn’t have containment buildings. There are definitely lessons to be learned from Chernobyl, but it doesn’t demonstrate a common reactor failure mode.
Chernobyl was uniquely fucked up, in an incredibly unsafe reactor—RBMKs didn’t have containment buildings. There are definitely lessons to be learned from Chernobyl, but it doesn’t demonstrate a common reactor failure mode.