Now that the Japanese government has raised the level of its nuclear disaster to a 7 on the scale, on the same level as Cherynobyl. There's been a lot of debate as to whether this is an accurate evaluation or not. Cherynobyl is considered by most to be far worse than the Fukashima Daichi disaster. Far more radiation was leaked/expelled by the Cherynobyl disaster due to the fact that the reactor core was made of highly combustible graphite, which caught fire when the heat from the meltdown reached the point at which the substance would ignite. The reactor then exploded, spewing highly radioactive gases and materials high into the atmosphere. Jet streams and such carried the radiation all over the world.
The Fukashima Daichi incident has really freaked people out lately. What with all the paranoia about the possibility of a meltdown shortly after the earthquake, it really had people from all walks of life freaked out about what kind of repercussions something like that could have. There was panic about whether radiation would leak into the ocean and poison fish and other products, as well as harming ocean life. They also were worried about the groundwater becoming tainted. An odd similarity between the two disasters is that the government either tried to cover up the event or that figures about the radiation levels was distorted. Now the main problem is no longer the risk of explosions or meltdowns, it's what the government and TEPCO are going to do with all that contaminated, radioactive water that's leaked and been building up.
In my opinion, they should either add an eight on the scale for the Cherynobyl, or the level of the Fukashima Daichi incident should be lowered, because these two incidents are obviously not on the same level as each other. Cherynobyl is by far the worse of the two incidents, and so far, it has had the greatest fallout.
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