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Cs-137 half life seems to only be 30 years. I assume the best solution then is just to keep an exclusion zone, and shrink it over the decades as the Cs decays?
by scarab92 2y ago
Cs-137 half life seems to only be 30 years.
I assume the best solution then is just to keep an exclusion zone, and shrink it over the decades as the Cs decays?
Why did they expose so many humans (liquidators) to radiation trying to clean this up? Shouldn't they have just evacuated the area and waited a few decades?
- voxadam 2y agoIs the Cs-137 contamination from the original reactor disaster or is it a part of some decay chain?
- mppm 2y ago> I assume the best solution then is just to keep an exclusion zone, and shrink it over the decades as the Cs decays? That's exactly how it's handled now, but it takes several multiples of 30 years to make a real dent in the radiation levels. 200 years maybe, depending on where you set the cutoff. > Why did they expose so many humans (liquidators) to radiation trying to clean this up? Shouldn't they have just evacuated the area and waited a few decades? The liquidators were exposed cleaning up and building the containment unit around the actual reactor building, not working in the wider exclusion zone, where radiation levels would be much lower.