• Wilzax@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    If America hadn’t responded to Chernobyl with fear of atomic power and instead adopted a “this is why communism will fail, look how much better we can do it” attitude, the climate crisis would be a non-issue right now

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      24 minutes ago

      Don’t forget about three mile island. I think much spin on the Chernobyl situation can be attributed to the embarrassment of the self failure

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        8 hours ago

        Threee mile island was only a partial meltdown, and very little fission product was ever released to the environment. Nowhere near as blatant and drastic of a failure as what happened in Chernobyl.

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          True, however it was embarrassing to the atomic lobby. It was very similar in his a little lack of oversight caused a huge crisis.

          The scale of the repercussions was very different, yes and that was emphasized to put the three mile incident in a better light.