Why the Fukushima disaster is worse than Chernobyl
Japan has been slow to admit the scale of the meltdown. But now the truth is coming out. David McNeill reports from Soma City
Monday, 29 August 2011
Economic cost
Fukushima: Japan has estimated it will cost as much as ￡188bn to rebuild following the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.
Chernobyl There are a number of estimates of the economic impact, but thetotal cost is thought to be about ￡144bn.
Safety
Fukushima: workers are allowed to operate in the crippled plant up to a dose of 250mSv (millisieverts).
Chernobyl: People exposed to 350mSv were relocated. In most countries the maximum annual dosage for a worker is 20mSv. The allowed dose for someone living close to a nuclear plant is 1mSv a year.
Death toll
Fukushima: Two workers died inside the plant. Some scientists predict that one million lives will be lost to cancer.
Chernobyl: It is difficult to say how many people died on the day of the disaster because of state security, but Greenpeace estimates that 200,000 have died from radiation-linked cancers in the 25 years since the accident.
Exclusion zone
Fukushima: Tokyo initially ordered a 20km radius exclusion zone around the plant
Chernobyl: The initial radius of the Chernobyl zone was set at 30km – 25 years later it is still largely in place.
Compensation
Fukushima: Tepco's share price has collapsed since the disaster largely because of the amount it will need to pay out, about ￡10,000 a person
Chernobyl: Not a lot. It has been reported that Armenian victims of the disaster were offered about ￡6 each in 1986
Aid
Fukushima: The UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported bilateral aid worth $95m
Chernobyl: 12 years after the disaster, the then Ukrainian president, Leonid Kuchma, complained that his country was still waiting for international help.
まあ、内容的には目新しいところはないが
イギリスの一般紙が福島は
過去最大級の事故であると認めたことは大きな意味があるだろう。
（日本人はもうみんな既に知ってるけどねｗ）
(追記 9月7日）
ＴＯＭＭＹさんという方が
全文訳を掲載されていますので以下引用させて頂きます。
福島原発事故がチェルノブイリを超える惨事となった理由について
（英・インディペンデント紙）
Japan has been slow to admit the scale of the meltdown. But now the truth is coming out. David McNeill reports from Soma City
Monday, 29 August 2011
Economic cost
Fukushima: Japan has estimated it will cost as much as ￡188bn to rebuild following the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.
Chernobyl There are a number of estimates of the economic impact, but thetotal cost is thought to be about ￡144bn.
Safety
Fukushima: workers are allowed to operate in the crippled plant up to a dose of 250mSv (millisieverts).
Chernobyl: People exposed to 350mSv were relocated. In most countries the maximum annual dosage for a worker is 20mSv. The allowed dose for someone living close to a nuclear plant is 1mSv a year.
Death toll
Fukushima: Two workers died inside the plant. Some scientists predict that one million lives will be lost to cancer.
Chernobyl: It is difficult to say how many people died on the day of the disaster because of state security, but Greenpeace estimates that 200,000 have died from radiation-linked cancers in the 25 years since the accident.
Exclusion zone
Fukushima: Tokyo initially ordered a 20km radius exclusion zone around the plant
Chernobyl: The initial radius of the Chernobyl zone was set at 30km – 25 years later it is still largely in place.
Compensation
Fukushima: Tepco's share price has collapsed since the disaster largely because of the amount it will need to pay out, about ￡10,000 a person
Chernobyl: Not a lot. It has been reported that Armenian victims of the disaster were offered about ￡6 each in 1986
Aid
Fukushima: The UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported bilateral aid worth $95m
Chernobyl: 12 years after the disaster, the then Ukrainian president, Leonid Kuchma, complained that his country was still waiting for international help.
まあ、内容的には目新しいところはないが
イギリスの一般紙が福島は
過去最大級の事故であると認めたことは大きな意味があるだろう。
（日本人はもうみんな既に知ってるけどねｗ）
(追記 9月7日）
ＴＯＭＭＹさんという方が
全文訳を掲載されていますので以下引用させて頂きます。
福島原発事故がチェルノブイリを超える惨事となった理由について
（英・インディペンデント紙）