“Reactor meltdowns are far worse in terms of fallout than nuclear bombs however.”
Um, no. They’re not.
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Nuke bomb blasts are a ‘cleaner burn’ of uranium/plutonium and a one time event (only about 2% of 141 pounds of uranium used, fissioned in Little Boy 2,000ft over Hiroshima).
Nuke plants fission uranium/plutonium over and over again for at least a year to the point the fuel rods have to be removed because fission byproducts begin to interfere with the fission process. This compared to a one time burn or fission during a nuke bomb blast.
Multiple burns/fissioning, keeps creating and adding to the dirty fuel rods’ byproducts totals i.e. cesium, plutonium, iodine, etc., 200 or so manmade byproducts all radioactive.
Worse, spent fuel rods which have reached their usefulness for core fissioning are moved to storage pools. One typical spent fuel storage pool will contain more radiocesium than created in all the aboveground nuke tests by all countries combined.
Nuke reactor meltdowns are worse than nuke bomb blasts with nuke spent fuel pool being the most dangerous of them all if ever even one catches on fire to release its radioactive contents.
Cancers rates rising since man began fissioning uranium shows the result of man adding to background radiation levels.