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A nuclear meltdown is a localized concern. It's small potatoes compared to an all out nuclear exchange.
by quotemstr 9y ago
A nuclear meltdown is a localized concern. It's small potatoes compared to an all out nuclear exchange.
- cocoablazing 9y agoAn SFP fire is not a reactor meltdown, and the distribution of fission products from a SFP and a weapon are also very dissimilar. SFP fires will result in long-lived contamination over plumes of >100km that would result in exclusion zones. For example, failure to restore cooling to the Fukushima pools could have necessitated the evacuation of 35MM people. http://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs24vonhippel.pdf http://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs24vonhippel.p... Even in a pure-counterforce exchange that avoided targeting population centers, the resulting damage to infrastructure could result in the denial of current urban centers to habitation for many decades.