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Wildlife gets another chance with the land being uninhabitable by humans for 300 years until Cs137 and Sr99 pass 10 lifetimes. A million years is a gross exager
by petre 8y ago
Wildlife gets another chance with the land being uninhabitable by humans for 300 years until Cs137 and Sr99 pass 10 lifetimes. A million years is a gross exageration. There are also people currently living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. They even have a name: samosely.
- arcticbull 8y agoThey actually continued to operate two of the other reactors at the Chernobyl power plant until Unit 2 was closed in 1991 and Unit 3 in 2000. [1] How crazy is that? [1] https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chernobyl-1-3-enter-decommissioning-phase https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chernobyl-1-3-en...
- petre 8y agoWell, it was the USSR. 'Gorbachev states, “The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later”' http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2017/8/21/the-reason-the-ussr-collapsed-chernobyl-gorbachev-and-glasnost http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2017/8/21/the-reaso...