Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'...
by eru on Friday March 04, 2022 @07:00AM
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> If the same thing happens to a nuclear power plant the area can't be lived in for millions of years.
Some people have been squatting in the Chernobyl exclusion zone for decades now, and are still alive. See eg https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/17/chernob...
I wouldn't want to live there myself, and cancer levels might be slightly higher than normal.
Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'...
by dewey on Friday March 04, 2022 @07:07AM
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Living secluded in a big exclusion zone with ~180 other people, no stores or infrastructure and higher levels of cancer is definitely something we should strive for.
Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'...
by eru on Saturday March 05, 2022 @12:28AM
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The lack of stores and infrastructure comes from lack of other people, which could be fixed.
I'm not sure if there is a higher level of cancer. But I grant you that we can assume that.
It's not pretty, but it's also not something that prevents people from living. Remember when everyone used to voluntarily increase their risk of lung cancer by crazy amounts? Back when everyone smoked? Civilization still persisted.
Re:Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe'...
by c1ccccc1 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @08:21PM
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Actually, the estimates for when the region will be habitable range from 3 centuries to 20 000 years. [1] "Millions" is off by several orders of magnitude.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Exclusion_z...
If the same thing happens to a nuclear power plant the area can't be lived in for millions of years.