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Originally Posted by fanman
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.
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You're right, it isn't anywhere near Chernobyl at this point. Chernobyl was a whole order of magnitude higher.
The problem is that if things go wrong, it can escalate from a "3 Mile Island" to a "Chernobyl" very quickly. How dire the situation is can't be tangibly measured until everything is under control.
That is not to say that some of the media isn't fear mongering, but until this thing is 100% under control, the sky is the limit on how bad things could get.