In this picture, you're looking down into the exposed core of the Chernobyl reactor. Its lid was blown off and landed cockeyed and the unbridled raw power of the core was left exposed as it burned.
This situation was already worse than Chernobyl & just keeps getting worse & out of control.
Uh, no.
It's serious, but not nearly as bad as Chernobyl.
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I believe Chernobyl was worse in that containment was blown completely from day 1 and the public was encouraged to enjoy outdoor festivities while fallout blanketed teh town etc. Literally every Soviet design and radiation exposure policy was horribly flawed. And to this day, they have lied about it. There were plenty of heroes who gave their lives, and way too many who were needlessly exposed and lied to. A Russian woman went through documents when the Soviet Union broke up and found out that over 10,000 people went to the hospital the first day of the disaster but for days their government said nothing was wrong.
For my money, the Japanese have better all around design, containment is not blown wide open as was Chernobyl. All radiation exposure and design decisions by the Japanese are light years ahead. Yes I am quite concerned for them - the tasks they are facing continue to get more complicated upon inspection. I never dreamed that we’d ever see the days they are facing now. But I would not say it is getting worse because they have some power and some water flow and just went through a big aftershock ok. Overall nuclear mass at risk is higher than Chernobyl but overall capacity to deal with it (and receive support from other nations) is better. IMHO :) I continue to pray for them.
In this picture, you're looking down into the exposed core of the Chernobyl reactor. Its lid was blown off and landed cockeyed and the unbridled raw power of the core was left exposed as it burned.
At Chernobyl there was a mixture of graphite and uranium on fire, uncontained. This is nothing at all like Chernobyl.