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Originally Posted by GoNative
You really seemed determined to try and make out what has happened here is worse than it is. The events in Fukushima are nothing like what occurred at Chernobyl. Not even close. Siokan makes some excellent points which you just completely ignore on your little crusade.
Firstly the Chernobyl reactor blew when it was running near full power. It had not shut down and had control rods inserted into the core to greatly reduce the nuclear reactions. The core was completely and utterly exposed and radioactive material was blasted many km's up into the atmosphere which meant this material was spread a long way from the reactor. None of these things have occurred at the Fukushima reactors.
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Yes, I read about and saw many documentaries. The fuel was not only blasted up to the atmosphere. A large part of molten radioative fuel leaked through the bottom of reactor to besements of the Block due to very high temperature.
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Originally Posted by GoNative
The amounts of radiactivity that's been released is many orders of magnitude less than Chernobyl. There has been no massive explosion totally breaching the core vessels. Radioactive materials have barely gone up 500m into the atmosphere meaning the dispersal of radioactive material is minimal and poses no real threat beyond the immediate area around the reactors. Certainly absolutely impossible to pose any threat to any other country. Is it at all possible you can keep a little perspective on what has actually occurred?
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There has been no massive explosion of core at Fukushima Daiichi NP, right, but damaged reactors still "infects" atmosphere and nearby environment by radioactive vapor and hot gases. How long It will take place? How many days or even months? Can you imagine or, say, calculate an overall damage to environment of radioactivity to be released?
That's why I compare Chernobyl disaster to recent one. Two or three relatively "small" explosions and a long-standing process of radioactive contamination of atmosphere and nearby territories. I compare not by mechanism of explosions of cores but mostly by consequenses of radioactive contamination.