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Chernobyl has a nice road that happens to be the shortest road between Kyiv the Ukraine capital and Russia. It also still has several active reactors only 1 of
by UnlockedSecrets 5y ago
Chernobyl has a nice road that happens to be the shortest road between Kyiv the Ukraine capital and Russia. It also still has several active reactors only 1 of them melted down so that gives some strategic merit byt the road is 99% of it.
- jaywalk 5y agoAll reactors at Chernobyl have been shutdown since 2000. I have been amazed lately at how many people are unaware of this and think Chernobyl is still an operating nuclear power plant.
- netsharc 5y agoA few weeks ago there's a cartoon where a guy sits in front a computer, and a speech bubble above him says "After 2 years of being an epidemiological expert, I am now a geo-political expert."...
- vlovich123 5y agoI had the opposite perception and thought no reactors were active since the explosion.
- brimble 5y agoIt was long one of those "surprising fact" sorts of things.
- blablabla123 5y agoIt's quite crazy though that they left it running for 14 years after making the area around it inhabitable and causing fallout over whole Europe
- jaywalk 5y agoIt is pretty crazy. I would assume that they really needed the energy it was producing, although I admit that I don't have much further knowledge on the topic.
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