Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by cedilla 1344 days ago
All five large reactor disasters occurred with reactors that also had fail-safes that rendered them theoretically safe. In the case of Three-Mile-Island, unlucky technicians had to work very hard against the reactor's system to sustain the failure.
1 comments

TMI is a success story. Despite everything that went wrong, the impact to the surrounding population was virtually nil.