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by kurthr 3131 days ago
Well, just note that after Chernobyl, Western Europe did live there. The size of the smoke plume (1000s km), radioactive material released (6000kg), and wind/weather during the event affected almost every country including Spain, England, and Norway. Those 300M people arguably recieved higher doses than you would living in the evacuated Fukushima area.

https://youtu.be/MU4_bJT8W3Y

The point is that it remained contained... that's good. With prpoer monitor wells even the ground water need not be badly contaminated.