SimCity 2000 also misleads people about the safety of atomic energy due to the way power plants work: - Destruction of the nuclear power plant spreads radiatio

SimCity 2000 also misleads people about the safety of atomic energy due to the way power plants work: - Destruction of the nuclear power plant spreads radiation tiles that persist for 10+ thousand in-game-years. - All power plants are automatically destroyed at the end of their design life, so if you forget to manually replace your nuclear power plant every 50 years you get radiation. - All power plants will catch on fire and eventually be destroyed when overloaded, and there is no option to choose load-shedding / brownouts, so if you overbuild you get radiation. - The "Nuclear-Free Zone" is the only in-game ordinance that costs no money, earns no money, and basically only exists to make a statement.