Comment by egorfine
4 hours ago
They're incomparable.
In Fukushima four PWR type reactors (which is just a large metal pot) melted but stayed inside the containment vessels.
In Chernobyl, an RBMK reactor, which is a ginormous slab of graphite, exploded outwards and burned for ten days, releasing mind-boggling amounts of radioactive hot particles into the top layers of the atmosphere, thus contaminating the whole world.
Incomparable.
> They're incomparable.
They were different kinds of disasters, but not incomparable in terms of the scope and reach of damage done to the environment. Chernobyl didn't have the situation of dumping incalculable amounts of radioactive water into the Pacific.
the ocean is a pretty fine place for radioactive water to be. the Pacific is really big and radiation danger is dose dependent.
Contamination from Fukushima has been found thousands of miles away across the Pacific Ocean.
That says a lot more about the sensitivity of the instruments than about the severity of the accident.
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