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"The Japanese plants are Light Water Reactors. If the cooling system fails, the water will heat up, thus slowing fewer neutrons, and the reaction will slow down. It's a self moderating reaction - quite neat.

That's not to say it couldn't get bad. The fuel could still melt and burn its way through the walls to get to the containment building - but that's what the containment building is there for. There will likely be some radioactive leakage from the plant, but it can be controlled.

Comparisons to Chernobyl are fear-mongering. Chernobyl didn't have a containment building. Also, I think it's safe to say, Chernobyl was a screw-up in just about every possible way. The plant was running over capacity, undermanned, the people running it didn't know what they were doing, and they ignored all warning indicators.

The Fukushima plant is likely a write-off at this point, which is its own kind of disaster, but the risk of serious loss of life is essentially zero."