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Re:Russian plutonium-fueled breeder reactor reaches first cr... by sandworm101 on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @06:01PM (#10050979)
No it did not. Read the WHO report. Any reference to chernobyl being "Uninhabitable" is more nuclear politics than scientific reality.
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Re:Russian plutonium-fueled breeder reactor reaches first cr... by comrade1 on Thursday August 13, 2015 @12:06AM (#10052204)
Are you saying Fukushima left more uninhabitable land? I don't think that's right.
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Re:Russian plutonium-fueled breeder reactor reaches first cr... by sandworm101 on Thursday August 13, 2015 @02:27AM (#10052540)
Neither. Other than a very few hot site, most all of the evacuated land is perfectly livable. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model
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