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All 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 operat
by jaywalk 5y ago
All 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.