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by ClumsyPilot 1160 days ago
> asteroid impact

So at this point, we are concerned if the remains of people who would be killed by the asteroid, would also be slightly radioactive? An the 'remains' are being probably like finely pulverised ashes?

Like the containment building is basically a bunker, and the reactor vessel is like a thousand tons of steel. If any asteroid gets through that, the neighbourhood is already gone.

So many people pointed out Fukushima to me, and most of them did not know that the tsunami killed 10,000 people and radiation killed zero.

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Fukushima was cleaned up by a massive task force using globalized technology. What I'm wondering about is if nuclear power is scaled to have hundreds or thousands of plants across the world, and something happens to humanity's ability to mount a globalized cleanup effort (using diesel, electricity, etc.), are the remaining societies safe from the effects of the decaying plants?