[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Chernobyl was not one massive explosion like an a bomb. Chernobyl was a series of massive explosions and a massive fire inside the reactor where there plutonuim inside. The core actually melted down and turned into lava. Did you know that it spewed more radiation was four hundred times more fallout was released than had been by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

[lonestar]

I knew none of that. We hear about radiation and how areas can't be inhabited for X numbers of years and I never understood how it different for different places.

I don't understand the "black hole" either. LOL!