Fukushima Disaster Nowhere Near Chernobyl – Expert

A handout picture taken and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) 13 April 2011 shows workers using a concrete pump to pump contaminated water from the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture.

The atomic disaster which struck the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi NPP is incomparable to the 1986 Chernobyl accident, International Atomic Energy Agency's deputy director, Denis Flory, stated.

Even though Japan increased the Fukushima Daiichi NPP's nuclear event assessment level to 7. or as much as Chernobyl, Denis Flory, stated that it is significantly less catastrophic than the 1986 disaster in the former Soviet Union.

"The Fukushima accident and Chernobyl are very different," he said, as cited by The Australian. "Chernobyl happened when the reactor had power, it was a huge explosion, vapor, power explosion, and then you had a huge graphite fire."

Thus, Flory supported Japan's official position that the current nuclear threat is far lower than that of Chernobyl. According to Japanese officials, the Fukushima radiation releases had been less than one-tenth of the total released at Chernobyl.

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