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>How many people had to be relocated? How large of an area is now uninhabitable? How many would have died if our luck had been just a bit worse that day? _Hiro
by logicchains 4y ago
>How many people had to be relocated? How large of an area is now uninhabitable? How many would have died if our luck had been just a bit worse that day?
_Hiroshima_ was re-inhabited just a few years later, and it was literally hit by a nuclear bomb.
- toyg 4y agoAnd they are still paying the price for it. https://k1project.columbia.edu/news/hiroshima-and-nagasaki https://k1project.columbia.edu/news/hiroshima-and-nagasaki They were "lucky", btw: "since the bombs were detonated so far above the ground, there was very little contamination—especially in contrast to nuclear test sites such as those in Nevada"
- mort96 4y agoŌkuma, Fukushima is still largely a ghost town from what I can tell. Only parts of the town have been declared successfully decontaminated with residents allowed to return, and only as late as 2019.