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Originally Posted by termogard
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Japan raised the severity level of the ongoing emergency at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Tuesday from level 5 to the maximum 7 on an international scale, recognizing that the tsunami-caused accident matches the world's worst nuclear catastrophe in 1986 at Chernobyl.
The nuclear regulatory agency under the industry ministry and the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, a government panel, said that between 370,000 and 630,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials have been emitted into the air from the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors of the plant.
Level 7 accidents on the International Nuclear Event Scale correspond to the release into the external environment of radioactive materials equal to more than tens of thousands of terabecquerels of radioactive iodine 131. One terabecquerel equals 1 trillion becquerels.
Kyodo News
And your opinion that " 7 does not make it anywhere near a Chernobyl event" is just an opinion. Sorry. |
It's not an opinion. It's totally verifiable. You seem to have not read anything anyone has written since your original post on this. In terms of total radiation leaked into the atmosphere as Rick points out the two events are still light years apart. The area affected in the two events are not even slightly comparable. It's the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl but they are not of the same magnitude in anyway whatsoever. I think Nyororin pointed out that if the scale was extended then Chernobyl would have been a 12. The event at Fukushima just barely scrapes in as a 7. Very serious but magnitudes apart from the event at Chernobyl....It's silly to keep trying to make them seem the same.
Still over a month on now from the accident and how many people have died from radiation? Not one. How many people hospitalised with acute radiation sickness? Not one.