Why the Fukushima disaster is worse than Chernobyl - Asia - World - The Independent: Why the Fukushima disaster is worse than Chernobyl
No one has ever before experienced the extensive radioactive contamination of air, water, soil, and food that now faces the Japanese people after the Fukushima disaster.
It is important to realize that each nuclear reactor contains more than a thousand times as much radioactive material as the radioactive fallout from a Hiroshima-type atomic bomb.
New scientist: Fukushima radioactive fallout nears Chernobyl levels - health - 24 March 2011 - New Scientist: Japan's damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima has been emitting radioactive iodine and caesium at levels approaching those seen in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident in 1986
Radioactive Wolves ~ Chernobyl/Hiroshima: A Comparison | Nature | PBS: It’s estimated that Chernobyl’s nuclear meltdown released about 400 times more radiation than the Hiroshima bomb
Japan | Nuclear | Radiation | Fukushima | Hiroshima: Fukushima cesium 'equals 168 Hiroshimas'
Official figures compare radioactive cesium at Fukushima with World War II blast.
I could find ONE balancing article, written on 16 March 2011:
Lessons for Japan from the Chernobyl catastrophe | Environment | The Guardian: Lessons for Japan from the Chernobyl catastrophe
The Fukushima nuclear plant crisis appears less dangerous than the 1986 Chernobyl disaster – but the risk of radiation spreading wide remains
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