The main reason for this is that Chernobyl was much worse. There’s a scale used by the IAEA to describe the severity of nuclear accidents, which is designed to be logarithmic IE a 2 is 10x more severe than a 1 is 10x more severe than a 0. Chernobyl is one of two 7s (the other being Fukushima), while Three Mile Island is a 5.
There’s definitely anti-communism involved, but from what I can tell, almost no radiation was released from Three Mile Island’s facility itself (though it did breach the area where radioactive materials are supposed to be). Chernobyl spread contamination over large parts of modern-day Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, as well as beyond.
The main reason for this is that Chernobyl was much worse. There’s a scale used by the IAEA to describe the severity of nuclear accidents, which is designed to be logarithmic IE a 2 is 10x more severe than a 1 is 10x more severe than a 0. Chernobyl is one of two 7s (the other being Fukushima), while Three Mile Island is a 5.
There’s definitely anti-communism involved, but from what I can tell, almost no radiation was released from Three Mile Island’s facility itself (though it did breach the area where radioactive materials are supposed to be). Chernobyl spread contamination over large parts of modern-day Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, as well as beyond.
I didn’t know Fukushima was that bad.
I believe it’s mostly due to the amount of contaminants released, and Fukushima had a giant leak directly into the ocean.