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They were running tests, so some warnings were expected.
Accidents are kinda inevitable with new technologies, especially nuclear. The US actually had its main nuclear accident, Three Mile Island, in 1979, which was quite a bit earlier than the USSR's Chernobyl in 1986. The human errors that caused both accidents were quite similar, the US just had a slightly better reactor design that prevented the same steam blowout that Chernobyl suffered.
Because of the backdrop of the Cold War, the US didn't share anything it learned from its mistakes at Three Mile Island with the Soviet Union.
Notice that after their respective disasters, the USA and USSR/Russia have not had similar meltdowns again. Since the end of the Cold War, no accidents have been caused again by similar issues due to the sharing of reactor info.
The Fukushima meltdown was due to corporate incompetence and skimping on disaster preparedness by TEPCO, so isn't comparable.
Another interesting note about Fukushima: in some other prefectures the NPP sites were designated safe spaces for people evacuated from their homes in preparation for the tsunamis, including NPP sites on the pacific coast just like Fukushima.
I also despise how Fukushima was used as the final excuse for Germany to ban nuclear power, as if Germany is at any risk for a tsunami (although they are of course at risk from corporate incompetence).
Germany's coal lobby screwed them so hard. Germany's fossil fuel lobby also promised to replace nuclear with a 'hydrogen economy' that still doesn't exist, and won't exist for at least the next decade.
Now Germany's about to run out of electricity.
Germany should restart nuclear energy. EU is already falling with nuclear decomissionings.
For as bad as things are with regards to energy in Germany right now, they'll have to get a whole lot worse before people are ready to accept nuclear again. Germans are absolutely terrified of nuclear power, apparently more so than losing all of their energy intensive industry.
German energy politics is a complete dumpster fire.
I also want add that Japan also had that one incident with Hisashi Ouchi in 1999, the guy was said to have one of the most painful deaths of any person ever.
I never heard about him before so just read about, and holy shit, manually handling uranium by buckets is not something i would expect in 1999