> small portion of the radioactivity escaping the containment shell
The Chernobyl reactor was very unsafe by modern standards, it did not have a containment vessel and tens of tons of reactor material was blown into the air, not a small amount.
The Chernobyl reactor was very unsafe by modern standards, it did not have a containment vessel and tens of tons of reactor material was blown into the air, not a small amount.
And your comment conveniently ignores Fukushima.