I wasn't comparing, I was early morning eulogising. I meant that we got lucky that, altough a lot went wrong, it didn't get any worse than it got. What with the reactor's ability to resist mother nature being exagerated by Tepco, the multiple aftershocks, the refusal of the Japanese government to widen the evacuation-radius, the meltdown risk after the explosions and all. It would have been embarassing for us humans if, after 25 years, we would have a disaster of the same magnitude.
And I wasn't saying I learned stuff about the nuclear industry, just that when I was a kid it was this vague danger you hadn't heard about before and now I know a little bit more about what actually happened then. Don't worry Barney, my glass is still half-empty.