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This plant, had it exploded in the 1970's, would have made New York and Washington DC uninhabitable.
Seeing as a PWR isn't really capable of exploding in the way you're describing, horseshit. At worst, it can flash boil a bunch of water and melt. Besides that, the containment building alone is miles better than anything the USSR ever commissioned. All you need to do to have a safe reactor is to take the goddamn people out of it.
No it's true. During clean up they were about to use a crane inside the reactor to lift a steel lid that had not been inspected that was damaged during the meltdown. The FBI stopped them at the last minute. Had the core touched the water during a meltdown it would have spread a radioactive cloud over DC and New York with enough Fallout to force them to be abandoned like Chernobyl
I see you've watched a single special on Netflix and consider yourself an expert on the matter. Good for you.
As a welder who has actually fabricated parts for nuclear reactors, you don't know shit about ass. The core always touches water, that's how a PWR works. Any void whatsoever in the core would displace the water that acts as a moderator and instantly shut down any chain reaction.