Fukushima COULD have been worse.”
IT WILL BE!
I stated that Chernobyl was over. It isn’t. Over a thousand of the wild boar hunted in Germany in 2010 contained more than the legal limit of 600 becquerels of radiation and the direct effects will be with us for at least a hundred more years. I also stated that Fukushima hasn’t really begun… and it hasn’t. Chernobyl released a huge radioactive cloud when it blew up. Fukushima will exceed the Chernobyl release in a year no matter what else happens. It will easily exceed the fallout created by all 2000+ nuclear tests – which were stopped because enough tests make a nuclear war unnecessary. Once you irradiate all the plants and all the animals and all the fish and all the people, dropping bombs is superfluous.
Those melting nuclear cores aren’t going away. There are additional differences. Chernobyl didn’t dump radioactive water into the world’s primary fishing waters. Fukushima will have to dump highly radioactive water into the oceans for many years just to PREVENT a Chernobyl-type accident – Fukushima will be many times worse than Chernobyl and will continue for, possibly, hundreds of years.
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