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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (34 children)

How is Chernobyl safe for wildlife now, but this book is still dangerous?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Um, Chernobyl is still extremely radioactive. You probably mean the exclusion zone which is really not that bad, there's even tourists going there. But it's still not recommended to live there due to cumulative exposure.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (5 children)

So the site itself is still deadly, but the areas around it are not? Would that be the case for a nuclear attack as well? Like ground zero would stay deadly but the rest of the city would be safe a few decades later? I just realized that I don't actually know very much about nuclear fallout. How are Hiroshima and Nagasaki safe?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Complex topic. It would depend on the bomb in question. Some are more "dirty" than others.

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