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They're incomparable.

In Fukushima four PWR type reactors (which is just a large metal pot) melted but stayed inside the containment vessels.

In Chernobyl, an RBMK reactor, which is a ginormous slab of graphite, exploded outwards and burned for ten days, releasing mind-boggling amounts of radioactive hot particles into the top layers of the atmosphere, thus contaminating the whole world.

Incomparable.

parent egorfine 6 months ago

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