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Hi all! My question is simple, how bad could Chernobyl realistically get? I heard on one old BBC programme that it could theoretically have produced an explosion that would render 300 square kilometres irradiated (or something like that). But how bad could the disaster itself have been, what's the maximum radiation that could have been kicked out, and how far could the radiation cloud have spread and what damage would it do further out?
I'm not overly interested in the political consequences, unless Soviet mishandling makes a bigger disaster ( ) but feel free to speculate on the global response if you like!