This was the closest near miss to an event since Three Mile Island. It was also a prolonged period of bad behavior. The company's fine is entirely appropriate.

A miss is as good as a mile

He got two points for the near fall with three seconds left in the period. I was frustrated and the reversal in the third ended it.

Nuclear power can never be made inherently safe. There is always a danger. But there's also always a danger with any form of electricity generation. The goal is to have that risk managed to an acceptably low level.

Even if you go with the cheapest thing ? which is a concrete pad ? that is a better solution than filled pools, by leaps and bounds.

The reactor is better protected than the spent fuel pools. It might be that spent fuel is a more attractive target for our enemies than the reactor itself.