Chernobyl was much worse than Fukushima, for a lot of reasons. The reactor got away from the Soviets in a way the reactors never got away from the Japanese, th

Chernobyl was much worse than Fukushima, for a lot of reasons. The reactor got away from the Soviets in a way the reactors never got away from the Japanese, though admittedly it was touch and go for a bit. Decades from now the cores will have been safely removed from the Fukushima reactors, the reactor vessels cut up and all of it will be safely stored in a nuclear waste dump. Chernobyl won't be in noticeably better shape than it is today. It will still be a concrete lid over a still-active meltdown.