https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Fukushima-a-slow-Chernobyl https://internationalviewpoint.org/Fukushima-a-slow-Chernobyl 2011-04-20T07:33:43Z text/html en Koji Saito <p>We can still describe the situation in Fukushima Daiichi as a “slow Chernobyl.” At the time of the accident at Three Mile Island [in the United States], the fuel bar was exposed 1 hour and 40 minutes after the accident, and 52% of the core came into meltdown for about ten hours before the cooling function was repaired. Despite the explosion of hydrogen, the leakage of radioactivity was limited thanks to the construction of the reactor, specially reinforced in case of a plane crash due to the proximity of the airport at Harrisburg.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV435-April-2011-" rel="directory">IV435 - April 2011</a>