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Originally Posted by Slava
Well to be fair the overseeing agency in France commented that this would be more severe than 3 mile island and not quite at the level of Chernobyl (which is the worst ever to date). I don't think that using words like catastrophe, critical etc. is over doing it in that light?
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More like not even close to Chernobyl level. I'm not going to try to discredit the French overseeing agency as I'm not a nuclear expert myself. However I'm more inclined to believe someone like, Sir. John Beddington, Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, who is actually in Japan right now and as such probably has a much better handle on the specific details and information of the situation. He and his colleagues findings are stated in an above post on this page, and are being echoed by scientists and experts in Japan. The word catastrophe might be applicable to the plant grounds itself and some of the evacuated radius, but not elsewhere.