>> Chernobyl released 100x more hard & persistent radiation >> directly into populated areas.
TEPCO claim says that the current estimate of the release is 10% of Chernobyl’s with a potential to be as bad as Chernobyl if it is not contained. So by pure mathematics it already can’t be “100x”.
And based on past history I take anything TEPCO cum grano salis.
Other Japanese scientists estimate the release much less than that “10% of Chernobyl”. Saw one that estimated it at less than 1%. By pure unsalted mathematics it could be 1000x less.