It has never been cleaned up, it has just been contained.
“It has never been cleaned up, it has just been contained.”
This. Three Mile Island involved an extensive cleanup effort. It took nearly 14 years at a cost of $1 billion.
The Chernobyl accident, however, was much worse than the one at Three Mile Island.
TMI was a meltdown, not an explosion, and radioactive material was mostly confined within the containment building. Chernobyl had no containment building, so the explosion released huge amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere.
The Chernobyl “cleanup” was mostly the installation of a concrete-and-steel sarcophagus to contain the radioactive ruins.
Unlike the japs, Ukraine doesn't have an ocean to dump the contaminated waste into...
I don’t believe anything from Ukrainian sources—propaganda.