Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4025392-20121229131609/@comment-204.184.155.187-20131110201734

I'll link to some sources now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#National_and_international_spread_of_radioactive_substances

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout#Nuclear_reactor_accident

I'd also like to note that only 3.5-0.5% of the total radioactive material in the Chernobyl reactor was actually released.

Nuclear reactors work by using radiation to boil water. This requires much more nuclear material than a bomb.