Please note this does not mean the USSR wasn’t that way. Just want to clarify I’m not a tankie, lol.

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    5 hours ago

    Yep, just to add, it’s entirely possible to have a melt down without any explosion at all. As you said, It just means the fuel melted through the reactor vessel. It can even happen without the fuel going prompt-critical.