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> release of toxins and carcinogens over large residential areas Thought experiment: how big of a nature-only walled-off preserve would we need around a nuclea
by losvedir 10y ago
> release of toxins and carcinogens over large residential areas
Thought experiment: how big of a nature-only walled-off preserve would we need around a nuclear plant in order to protect against that? And if that amount of area were instead covered with solar panels, how much energy would that produce?
My impression given the efficiency of nuclear is that it'd still win, plus you get a sweet nature reserve out of it.
- BenElgar 10y agoI'm all for investment in nuclear but it would take a really bloody colossal nature preserve. The Chernobyl exclusion zone is only 2,600 km^2 but about 3,900,000 km^2 of Europe - about 40% of it's total land mass - was contaminated with caesium-137 after that disaster and about 2% of Europe was contaminated to 'high' levels. Even as far away as the UK there are restrictions on hundreds of farms related to that radiation. Source: http://www.chernobylreport.org/?p=summary http://www.chernobylreport.org/?p=summary