Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after Fukushima

Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by sir_bearington on Thursday March 11, 2021 @02:00PM (#26427656)

Likewise, Pripyat remains a ghost town because it was planned city built to support the power plant workforce. Now that the power plants are no longer in operation, there's no incentive to clean it up and resettle it.

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Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by anoncake on Friday March 12, 2021 @06:20AM (#26434543)

How do you explain the chernobyl exclusion zone?

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Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by moistbar on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:55PM (#26440170)

They never bothered to clean it up because without the power plant, the town was dead. Most of the people living there were plant workers.

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Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by anoncake on Saturday March 13, 2021 @02:42PM (#26449316)

The soil and the groundwater are contaminated. You can't realistically replace those, not across 2,600 km^2.

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