“At a place I once worked, there was a small experimental nuclear reactor that had a meltdown. As a result, radioactive fallout was spread through the air and through groundwater to contaminate a large surrounding area. The cases of cancer in the surrounding community is abnormally high, and a lot of former employees came up with an inordinate number of cases of a particular type of leukemia.”
I don't deal in "scare stories." I worked there and experienced this. I may be where I got my cancer from. Google Rocketdyne, Santa Susana Field Laboratory, California, nuclear incident.