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sir_bearington
on March 11, 2021
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Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years...
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.
anoncake
on March 12, 2021
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How do you explain the chernobyl exclusion zone?
_dax6
on March 12, 2021
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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.
anoncake
on March 13, 2021
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The
soil
and the
groundwater
are contaminated. You can't realistically replace those, not across 2,600 km^2.
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