How does Fukushima differ from Chernobyl?
Apr. 15th, 2011 07:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solipsistnationIn lots of ways.
...more or less what I said before. I think they're kind of silly to bump the rating up to 7, since it's not a Chernobyl-level nuclear excursion (that's my favorite piece of technical jargon-- it makes terrifying disasters sound sort of quaint and cheerful, like you're driving a convertible Model T out to have a picnic under a tree somewhere, except nuclear), but I'm not a nuclear regulator or anything...
...more or less what I said before. I think they're kind of silly to bump the rating up to 7, since it's not a Chernobyl-level nuclear excursion (that's my favorite piece of technical jargon-- it makes terrifying disasters sound sort of quaint and cheerful, like you're driving a convertible Model T out to have a picnic under a tree somewhere, except nuclear), but I'm not a nuclear regulator or anything...