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Each of which, had they gone very wrong, would have rendered the better part of a continent uninhabitable
by whearyou 6y ago
Each of which, had they gone very wrong, would have rendered the better part of a continent uninhabitable
- Aachen 6y agoIn what remotely plausible scenario would that have happened? Feel free to involve USSR-specific issues, reactor safety of the time, etc. Because from what I know, the fallout from it literally exploding is not making anything nearly that large "uninhabitable", even if we literally stand around and did nothing against it. Deaths would go up, but so did they from the coal plants that were subsequently built (we're at 3 million deaths a year, if memory serves; that's the number you have to beat to make nuclear less attractive than the technology we did build. Every year. Millions of people.). Edit: a quick search suggests 4 million now, or another source says 10k/day which works out to 3.7 million per year (from results' summaries shown on DDG) but feel free to find reliable sources.
- whearyou 6y agoUncontrolled reactor breach and explosion, spreading core material into the atmosphere at several orders of magnitude bigger level than occurred. It actually almost occurred, it’s a major drama arc in the HBO special. I think you may want to do some more googling.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoThis is a ridiculous statement. I bet you can't find even one source for it.
- whearyou 6y agoI can find hundreds. Start with Wikipedia