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bb88yesterday at 3:23 PM2 repliesview on HN

The potential for widespread radiation leakage from nuclear doesn't exist with wind or solar. I would think a terrorist would hit a nuclear power plant over any wind or solar farms.

The Chernobyl exclusion zone will remain uninhabitable for the next 20,000 years.


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robocatyesterday at 11:02 PM

> uninhabitable

Inhabitable: there are people living there off their own gardens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samosely

However Undesirable to you or I.

If refugees were allowed to live there, I wonder how many people would choose radiation over their current worse situations?

The article mentions people moving from Donbas (perhaps less inhabitable): "Following the outbreak of the war in Donbas in 2014, refugees from that conflict settled in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone or nearby".

Mawrtoday at 1:16 AM

Now calculate what % of habitable land on Earth that exclusion zone takes up.

Yeah, that's a lot of zeroes.