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I only recently found out that Chernobyl was still a functioning power plant until 2000: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1071344.stm http://news.bbc.co

• kurthr 10y ago
  Yep, imagine if Fukashima (which leaked radiation slowly into the ground water an ocean rather than burning the pile) were treated like Chernobyl. Amazing how I read articles about how the area is such a great nature preserve now, when it was so much (5-10x) larger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Fukushima_and_Chernobyl_nuclear_accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Fukushima_and_Ch... In comparison the Tohoku Tsunami caused 25k casualties, which (outside of Japan) seem have been largely ignored over by the coverage of the radiation leaks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_an...
  • glasz 10y ago
    i love how wikipedia portraits it like an event with no aftermath. fukushima is still leaking. 400 tons of radioactive water. this will probably go on forever. the meltdown may have reached ground water. nobody knows because tepco and japans enlighted gov won't tell. http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/15/whats-really-going-on-at-fukushima/ http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/15/whats-really-going-on...