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Is the Chernobyl explosion different from a Nuclear warhead test w.r.t to the nuclear radiation it emits?
gpt
The main differences between a bomb and a power reactor is that the power reactor contains much much more radioactive waste, most of it is a ground level release and doesn’t go into the upper atmosphere so it has a direct/local effect, and the power reactor will continue to have airborne releases after the initial failure as the core melts. 

A bomb explodes all at once, has a small amount of waste, a lot of it goes airborne, and once it explodes it’s done because all the material scatters or vaporizes.