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by jmyeet 1392 days ago
That depends on where the 1,000 suqare miles is. If it's in the Nevada desert, I might agree (although the fallout from Chernobyl did fall over Europe so the initial impact is well beyond the long-term 1,000 square miles) but that's not where you need to build nuclear power plants [1]:

> To obtain the best value from nuclear power stations, they should be built close to the cities

[1]: https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazi...