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Chernobyl was actually very close to the worst case scenario. And it was an especially unsafe design.


I'm sure you'll recall that there were three people who risked great personal harm to prevent 3 more cores from exploding and causing much greater harm than just the one that already had.

https://www.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-volunteers-divers-...




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