Estimation on the contaminated, unlivable zone around a nuclear reactor after an uncontrolled, unattended meltdown
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Take a modern nuclear reactor complex. Now picture a catastrophic meltdown, not unlike Chernobyl.
But this time there is nobody around to do damage control, and all control mechanisms do fail.
The reactor breaches, causing the other reacotrs in the complex to meltdown too and they spills radioacive death all around. The windy season picks up the particles and spread them far.
A decade after the accident, there is a zone around the reactor nobody can live in.
How big should be this zone?
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