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Please note this does not mean the USSR wasn’t that way. Just want to clarify I’m not a tankie, lol.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Nuclear power plants are more dangerous than intentional nuclear bomb strikes because the most destruction from a nuclear bomb is an "air burst" that happens to avoid poisoning the ground for centuries. Chernobyl has a 30km exlusion radius, and was 10x more radiation than Fukushima for a 20km radius. Hiroshima could be settled again after the fires burnt out, and no long term health effects from those who weren't initially poisoned by radiation.

It is ground burst nuclear weapons or reactors that permanently sow the land with salt. Missing bombs, or accidentally dropped bombs, are that risk for someone who might use it after finding it.