[quote=Arraya]From what I have read due to the reactor design an international radioactive release is very very low probability. [/quote]

I’m not so sure about that. There is a lot of spent fuel on site that needs a continuous supply of water to keep cool. Radiation around the site is getting so high that all the workers were forced to evacuate. If they can’t figure out a way to keep the spent fuel cool, then there probably won’t be an explosion, but it could all melt over the course of many months with the radiation contaminating an ever wider area.

From what I’ve read, I get the sense that this has the potential to be worse than Chernobyl due to the large amount of spent fuel.