The Soviets built a power plant that couldn t be built in any Western nation Japan or Taiwan and also ignored the basic safety principle of having a containment Then they let a non nuclear qualified engineer take over something the NRC would never stand for here The Soviet system was directly responsible for this catastrophe Statement about Atoms For peace precluding renewables I moved this to Criticisms as it is about the history of renewables not nuclear power I also trimmed it to match what the reference actually says