SCIENCE BLOG: Reactor incidents in Japan | AusSMC - Australian Science Media Centre

SCIENCE BLOG: Reactor incidents in Japan | AusSMC - Australian Science Media Centre: "This is not Chernobyl! Chernobyl was a fire, this reactor contains water which does not burn. There are also numerous other differences which make the comparison irrelevant. It is more like Three Mile Island 1979 where major core damage did occur due to loss of cooling, but no significant radioactive releases occurred."