Sad.
You know along with nuclear war we didn’t even know that we were within the radius of the deadly zone in nonfiction book We Almost Lost Detroit, in the incident in which the Fermi Nuclear Reactor was going to blow out a huge radiation cloud which would have been deadly for many miles away. Where I was.
“On Oct. 5, 1966 — — Detroit Edison’s Fermi-1 nuclear plant suffered a partial meltdown, caused by a piece of floating shrapnel inside the container vessel.”
Oddly, I had been on a much earlier school field trip to visit the place and I had raised my hand to ask what if the reactor went into a crisis mode, etc. They looked upset with me, then circled the wagons and four or five laughed at me and said “That’s not going to happen. We have safeguards to avoid that.” Followed by “But if it did we would have to bury the whole place in cement and leave a plaque on top to our future residents on what’s below.” (Laughs).
They actually do that after accidents.
Wow. I was in Detroit as a child and knew nothing about that.
I bet they were ready for the next kid who asked that question.🥴
Chernobyl and Fukushima are the closest to worst case scenarios that we’ve had to a full blown meltdown and they sure grabbed the attention. I’ve seen several shows shot near Chernobyl and the place looks like something from a horror movie with everyone gone but the paraphernalia of everyday life still in place. Scary.