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[51] [52] Arnold Gundersen said Fukushima has 20 times the potential to be released than Chernobyl. Hot spots are being found 60 to 70 kilometres away from the reactor (further away than they were found from Chernobyl), and the amount of radiation in many of them is the amount that caused areas to be declared no-man's-land for Chernobyl. [53]
Far fewer people died as an immediate result of the Chernobyl event than the immediate deaths from radiation at Hiroshima.Chernobyl is eventually predicted to result in up to 4,000 total deaths from cancer, sometime in the future, according to the WHO and create around 41,000 excess cancer according to the International Journal of Cancer, with, depending on treatment, not all cancers resulting ...
Experts have said the Hanford Site in Washington is an underground Chernobyl waiting to happen. ... blown around and made the situation much worse. ... the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan ...
Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear power plant accidents from 1952 to 2009 (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage, the amount the US federal government uses to define nuclear energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.
For the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, managing the ever-growing volume of radioactive wastewater held in more than 1,000 tanks has been a safety risk and a burden since the meltdown in ...
The radioactivity released was an order of magnitude lower than that released from Chernobyl, and some 80% of the radioactivity from Fukushima was deposited over the Pacific Ocean; preventive actions taken by the Japanese government may have substantially reduced the health impact of the radioactivity release.
Japan marked the 13th anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear meltdown and left large parts of Fukushima prefecture uninhabitable on Monday with a minute of ...