The immediate impact of the catastrophic failures at Fukushima is not yet clear. It is worse than America’s near-disaster at Three Mile Island in 1979, which was fairly swiftly brought under control. But it is highly unlikely to be as devastating as the accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986, which sent a radioactive cloud across Europe that caused the deaths of an uncertain number of people, possibly well into the thousands.
— “Japan’s Nuclear Industry: The Risks Exposed”
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