you are wrong, many people allready live near chenobyl, most of them are homeless and it sure isnt exactly safe, but they arent dropping off dead, they just have a higher chance of dieing at 60 from prostate cancer.
Uranium has nothing to do with it, neither does half lifes, this wasnt a radiactive material spill we are talking about, the radiation will take approx 800 years to return to previous safe levels, not 245000 years.
Its a pet hate because i am sick of stupid hippies gettings the two confused and using heroshima as some sort of reason as to why we shouldnt be using nuclear power right now, and then they have the nerve to suggest that another chernobyl might happen.... godamn ignorant hippies
Just to clarrify, a meltdown is NOT a thermonuclear explosion. A meltdown in itself is not dangerous, safety precautions mean that there is no real risk to the public as the contaiminants can be easily contained, its just a bitch to clean up and very expensive to rebuild.
the reason that radiactive contaminants were released was because a steam explosion and the lack of any containment structure caused all that shit to spray into the air. All the noble gases were released[cause they are gases, they just rushed throu the created hole] some iodine was realeased, which was the billowy steam shit everyone saw as well as some caesium and tellurium which were boiled into gases by the extreme heat and so they rushed out in the steam aswell, these radiactive ellements traveled through the air and settled on stuff, causing cancer and death, the spread of radiaton showed no similarity to a thermonuclear weopon at all.
The big killer would have been the caesium-137 as that shit was found in the soil all over russia, gets absorbed by insects, plants and people eat it and get sick.
