Comment Re:"....how close workers came to averting...." (Score 1) 259
> Isn't this the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl?
Yes. As the submitter said.
> Should the summary read a bit more like 'averting a worse nuclear disaster than Chernobyl'?
No. Basically, all their efforts failed, so it was as bad as it could have been. And it was still much less severe than Chernobyl.