*yells and pulls out hair!*
Chernobyl didn't meltdown, it blow up first of all, second of all Chernobyl was more then one reactor, (it was 6) Three Mile Island had one, as all USA Plants do, any way, in a meltdown the core gets over heated and melts downward into the ground, the ground would glow weird colors and i won't drink the ground water for the next 1,000 years but no one is going to die from nuclear radiation, Harrisburg, PA would be fine (maybe somewhat higher cancer rates, maybe)
Doesn't TMI also have containing building, something Chernobyl lacked?
*yells and pulls out hair!*
Chernobyl didn't meltdown, it blow up first of all, second of all Chernobyl was more then one reactor, (it was 6) Three Mile Island had one, as all USA Plants do, any way, in a meltdown the core gets over heated and melts downward into the ground, the ground would glow weird colors and i won't drink the ground water for the next 1,000 years but no one is going to die from nuclear radiation, Harrisburg, PA would be fine (maybe somewhat higher cancer rates, maybe)
You're wrong about all US plants only have a single reactor. Some of the ones that I am familiar with have more than one. Plant Vogtle has two and is looking at adding two more. Catawba has two. Oconee has three. Hatch has two. At the time of the incident Three Mile Island had two reactors. Where do you get the idea that American Nuclear power plants have only a single reactor? In fact, of the 61 currently active nuclear power facilities, 39 of them have more than one reactor. That's 63.4% of them.
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Chernobyl did not have a containment dome, also the steam got built up and blow the roof off, thus spewing highly radioactive steam and dust all over and leaving the core open to the sky
TMI would not have this happen thanks to the containment dome (4-6 feet of Rebar and Concrete)