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That doesn't say much about the viability of the technology. Almost all of these reactors are 40+ years old by now. The safety improvement we could get from just iterating on that tech with our current knowledge is huge.

Also, meltdowns are bad, but they are accounted for, even in most of those old designs.

422 in operation. You should divide by the total amount of reactors that have ever run for some significant amount of time, including those that have stopped operating.

The question is how serious the incidents are. Three Mile Island was a partial meltdown--and harmed nobody.