I agree with the article that this should not be seen as something that could only happen in a Soviet-style authoritarian bureaucracy, but it is unfortunate tha

I agree with the article that this should not be seen as something that could only happen in a Soviet-style authoritarian bureaucracy, but it is unfortunate that its author chose to exaggerate to make this case. If TMI had gone on longer before being diagnosed, the result wold not have been Chernobyl-like, though it could have resembled Fukishima - is that not bad enough?