How did the explosion at Chernobyl compare to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Answer 1

The bombs dropped in Japan were designed to produce a large nuclear explosion which produced heat and blast waves. At Chernobyl an operating reactor lifted its top off due to a surge in pressure, and this flung out radioactive debris, not as a result of a nuclear explosion but due to mechanical forces. There was approx. 400 times the amount of radiation released from Chernobyl than there was from the two bombs dropped on Japan.

Answer 2

It did not. The reason the people did not come back was there were no job since the plant broke.

Answer 3

Chernobyl was an accident, Hiroshima was a planned attack.

Answer 4

The two events could not be compared exactly. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hit 20 times stronger than Chernobyl but the difference is that Chernobyl leaked radiation for a number of years.