Didn't we always hear that nuclear is so deadly that once it leaks or explodes, nothing will be alive for millennium? What happened to Japan? Why haven't we heard about the whole country poisoned and gone from 2 nuclear explosions?
I come to the conclusion that once again, we have been lied to. Thoughts?
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.
With this article, I am just wondering.
Didn't we always hear that nuclear is so deadly that once it leaks or explodes, nothing will be alive for millennium? What happened to Japan? Why haven't we heard about the whole country poisoned and gone from 2 nuclear explosions?
I come to the conclusion that once again, we have been lied to. Thoughts?
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.