...the Soviets wasted some 24h before even warning the locals of the catastrophe, that is the main source of the high exposure of civilians at Chernobyl (combined with an iodine deficiency just to make matters worse). Once the balloon went up the Soviets solved it in a traditional Soviet manner, by throwing people at it. Some 600.000 liquidators were more or less irradiated. I don't think the Soviets have much to teach the world on responding to nuclear disasters. The Japanese disaster is nowhere near disastrous enough yet to justify such extreme measures.
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