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No, nearly all the uranium was contained at Chernobyl. If it had melted down a little faster it could have hit a flooded basement before it was drained. The ste
by jeremyjh 7y ago
No, nearly all the uranium was contained at Chernobyl. If it had melted down a little faster it could have hit a flooded basement before it was drained. The steam explosion would have distributed uranium dust over potentially thousands of miles.
- vonmoltke 7y agoDo you have a source for the likelihood of that, as well as the likelihood of it rendering those thousands of miles uninhabitable?
- beerandt 7y agoI think this theory has been mostly debunked, ironically because it pretty much happened in multiple reactors at fukashima without that disastrous result.