Radioactive iodine caused thousands of cases of thyroid cancer in children after the Chernobyl accident.
Both had been rated at accident level 5, again, two levels lower than Chernobyl.
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One huge difference between the Fukushima and Chernobyl circumstances relates to basic reactor facility design features.
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Demonstrators in Japan marked the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl with marches and demands for change.
In fact, Fukushima and Chernobyl are the only nuclear power disasters in that category.
But the 2005 Chernobyl Forum report found scant evidence that this was the case.
The question now, is how populations can begin to move on from the specter of Chernobyl?
And children are still living in zones that would have been evacuated around Chernobyl.
But we we who were raised in a world without Chernobyl, now live with Chernobyl.
There are some Chernobyl photo albums now, but how many video and photo cameras were broken!
It's not a chronicle of Chernobyl, no, they wouldn't let anyone film that, it was forbidden.
And they'll only believe the real thing, because there are too many lies around Chernobyl.
The 1986 explosion at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl plant made the business even scarier.
The country suffered its own collossal nuclear meltdown with Chernobyl in April of 1986.
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For many, the term nuclear power still calls to mind Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
They had no worries about serving their time at Chernobyl and the radiation didn't bother them.
Chernobyl's death toll is highly uncertain, but may have reached a few thousand people.
Chernobyl also had a stronger foothold in the region: it allegedly originated in Taiwan.
"Chernobyl" is a potent variant of a well-known CIH program and was first discovered last June.
That said, Fukushima is already worse than Three Mile Island and closer to the awful Chernobyl accident.
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The Kulinarski plant is a newer design than that of Chernobyl, where a reactor exploded in 1986.
What is known is that this is a situation very different than Chernobyl or Three Mile Island.
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In fact, unlike Fukushima, Chernobyl had no containment structure whatsoever to limit the spread of radioactivity.
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Even a climactic showdown in Chernobyl, a potentially fascinating location for any movie, proves a damp squib.
She has performed in concerts benefiting child victims of the Balkan wars and Chernobyl nuclear disaster victims.
This was in stark contrast to Chernobyl where the Soviets intentionally kept the public in the dark.
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Thus, radioactive leaks through the ground, in the event of a Chernobyl-like catastrophe, would be difficult to contain.
Events are being held in the Highlands to mark 27 years since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.
It revealed, contrary to the Chernobyl Forum's 2005 report, that biodiversity in insects, birds and mammals is declining.
Another service took place in the town of Slavutich, built to house Chernobyl workers displaced by the accident.
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