Tw's vicious prejudices: check; noted. It is not merely that he is plagued with economic illiteracy even unto voting Democratic habitually, nor that he is incapable of politics: this man does not play well with humans. The prisons are full of men of that description.
Now to something a tad more constructive: that event scale goes to 7 and stops. Nuclear activists of some kind interviewed on NPR recently said that while Fukushima is rated a 7, Chernobyl's release of radionuclides would rate about a 10 or 11 -- not exactly parity.
A poster on another board I frequent put it this way:
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I was listening to NPR last night driving home and someone from some nuclear group was speaking about the Japanese reactor. When asked about it being the same level of disaster as Chernobyl he stated what we need to know is that the scale only has 7 levels and once you meet the top level there is nothing beyond that but if you compare the two's leak levels Japan is still only 1/10th the amount of contamination that Chernobyl produced mainly because when Chernobyl blew up it scattered more radiation than a leak like Japan is producing. He said if Japan is a 7 Chernobyl would be a 10 or 11 if the scale was adjusted.
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Sourcing on this is not yet very tight -- what knoweth the 'Net? Is this spokesman wrong or right?