2017: Number of US Nuclear Plants that Produced More Energy than All the Wind Turbines In Denmark.

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8. Three Mile Island was a classic.

Alarmists were howling, "See, it proves that nuclear plants are dangerous, lethal."

Actually, it proved that nuclear plant designers had been overly pessimistic in their assumptions, and had produced a plant which was far more safe during an operational mishap that it was thought it would be. There was a scenario called the "China syndrome" which assumed that if the core was even partially exposed to air it melt down, melt through the bottom of the container and down into the Earth, causing widespread destruction and nuclear fallout. Three Mile Island's core was exposed to air, for quite a lengthy time, and it did not melt at all. The reactor was damaged but repairable.

Fukushima's reactors are "boiling water" reactors and prove nothing about this nation's "pressurized water" reactors, which are a very different type and far more robust both in operation and in ability to withstand external accident.