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⟩ Tell me is it fair to compare American reactors to the one at Chernobyl?

It's completely unfair. It's like comparing the Stanley steamer that's going along at 150 miles an hour to a present day car with all the safety features a modern car has. And that Chernobyl plant was a very crude plant, was operating badly. It had the worst possible accident. And yet the number of identifiable deaths from it are really only a handful. And even the children who were affected by it, some few dozen, those could have been avoided with iodine tablets.

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