Mars 2011 / http://www.platts.com

Fukushima releases one-tenth of those from Chernobyl : France’s IRSN

Paris (Platts)—17Mar2011 https://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/ElectricPower/6916290

Releases up to now from Japan’s Fukushima I nuclear power plant are about a tenth of what was released from the Chernobyl-4 reactor in Ukraine in 1986, experts at France’s Institute of Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, IRSN, said Thursday.

But Thierry Charles, IRSN’s head expert on the Japanese crisis, said at a midday CET briefing there was a "ray of hope" for the beleaguered (…)