[skookum]

Not sure if you are trying to be sarcastic, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Sc...

[csours]

Fukushima and Chernobyl are both classed as 7s, but the amount of radiation released at Fukushima was at least an order of magnitude less than Chernobyl, with 80% of that falling on the ocean.

Fukushima caused half as many people as Chernobyl to evacuate.

No one died as a direct result of Fukushima, as opposed to 2 immediate + 28 cleanup deaths from Chernobyl.

Fukushima definitely deserves to be taken seriously, and it belongs in the same class as Chernobyl, but at the other end of that class.

[adrianratnapala]

Another difference is that Fukushima was just one result (and by far not the worst result) of a huge natural disaster.

[xrange]

If Fukushima is a major event, with no fatalities, what does one consider the Banqiao Dam event, with 170,000 fatalities?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

[vkou]

A sign that we should shut down every single hydroelectric power-plant in the world.

Or, we could be reasonable about these things, and understand that power generation at an industrial scale will kill people.

[mistermann]

"That's different!"

[adrianN]

Also a major event, but in a category that is almost completely irrelevant to the current discussion.