I'm glad you pointed that out Jake. I've worked in two different Nuclear Power plants here in the US and know quite a bit about the safety systems involved. It disgusts me to see the media do what they do in demonizing Nuclear Power. First off, Chernobyl had no containment building that was anything more substantial than a Tuff Shed. Three Mile Island had a partial core melt down but the other safety stops did exactly what they were engineered to do. The one in Japan has a containment structure similar to what is required in the us.
The Fukushima reactor that's in trouble is an older design than Three Mile Island, and lacks the concrete containment dome that TMI and other more modern reactors have.
