Chernobyl is an abandoned city due to the disaster of Chernobyl nuclear power station in 1986, read up. A scheduled safety test has caused an accident that result in the meltdown of the reactor core, due to a design flaw of the nuclear power plant.

Do you think it is better than Nagasaki when it possibly has lower casualties? But it surely has a very negative impression on nuclear power.

Meanwhile, radiology utilized radioactive material of short half-life, usually in the matter of days, some in hours, read up.

Take note on Uranium-235, which is the fuel for fission reaction, has a half-life of billions of years(wikipedia stated 700 millions years).

This post has been edited by rexis: Aug 14 2009, 01:12 AM