delt0r wrote: You really should not compare the two. They are different orders of accident. Fukushima is quite small and much more localized that Chernobyl by a massive margin.
They were both rated seven on the INES scale. While the release from Fukushima was a fraction of Chernobyl, it was mostly blown out or leaked into the sea, away from the major metropolitan areas. But what about the fish? One shouldn’t treat a meltdown as if it were a trivial event.
