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>Anything that's "death soon or guaranteed cancer later" levels of energetic won't be lasting centuries because physics.

I don't know which "physics" you're referring to, but here are the half-lives of just the most common isotopes (out of OVER 100) released in Chernobyl.

iodine-131: 8.04 days

caesium-137: 30 years

strontium-90: 29.12 years

plutonium-241 (decays into Americium-241): 14.4 years

Americium-241: 430 years

Remember, these are HALF-LIFE numbers, meaning half the isotopes will still be radioactive after these time intervals.



Ok. Now do heavy metals.

Having shit magically go away by itself is such a massive plus.

Imagine how contaminated that part of the world would be if Chernobyl released equally dangerous (like remediation workers dying in the same amount of time) levels of thallium.


I don't understand, what does thallium have to do with anything, in this case?




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