The nuclear bombs that struck Japan were one off detonations of a small amount of nuclear material, deadly in the moment but relatively harmless shortly there after.
A nuclear disaster like Chernobyl is a decades long radioactive reaction that truly can poison an area for eons.
HOWEVER, Chernobyl was a result of Russian cheapness and incompetency. Western nuclear plants have many more fail safes AND are built with containment buildings that keep a potential disaster restricted to within the plant itself.
There is no reason for Western nations to fear nuclear power, especially when building plants that are not along a major fault line.
There is a lot of nuance there.
The nuclear bombs that struck Japan were one off detonations of a small amount of nuclear material, deadly in the moment but relatively harmless shortly there after.
A nuclear disaster like Chernobyl is a decades long radioactive reaction that truly can poison an area for eons.
HOWEVER, Chernobyl was a result of Russian cheapness and incompetency. Western nuclear plants have many more fail safes AND are built with containment buildings that keep a potential disaster restricted to within the plant itself.
There is no reason for Western nations to fear nuclear power, especially when building plants that are not along a major fault line.
Thanks for the info. So there's degree of radioactive depending on what happened. Understood.