[spetznaz]

It is quite possible I am wrong. I will willingly agree to that, particularly since I was basing my statement on a documentary I watched a couple of weeks ago on Chernobyl that was showing ghost towns that are as they were when the evac order was issued. I do not have any hard facts apart from that doc (and I would hardly call it a hard fact), thus it is possible you are correct.

Anyways, as for nuclear energy, it is easily one of the safer energy choices out there. Especially compared to sources like coal. The only problem is that one incident and suddenly calls for banning nuclear power come out. Quite interesting how the human mind simply goes to the most extreme option available, even when logic would entail otherwise. :(

[B4Ranch]

>>Quite interesting how the human mind simply goes to the most extreme option available, even when logic would entail otherwise. :( <<

As a species, we are quite easily controlled. That’s been shown over and over again. TV programs, movies, illicit drugs, public education, you name it and a sector of society will follow the path.

[Brilliant]

I think you are right that there are areas around the reactor that are abandoned. I recommend the youtube video. Actually it’s a documentary series. It really does not focus on the reoccupation of the area, but more on the efforts of the scientists to contain it, and it’s quite interesting. They don’t mention the reoccupation of the city until the very end. But I found it interesting that people were moving back in just a few years after the accident. If you just read about it in the Western press, you’d think that the area was rendered uninhabitable for thousands of years.