You know, radiation isn't manufactured by nuclear power plants. Radioactive material is mined out of the ground, which is also a good place to put it back when we're done. Radiation is much more scary for the general public than coal dust, sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide because it seems so alien to us, people don't understand it, this strange invisible power that harms us in mysterious ways. But we are all oddly silent about the thousands of deaths and respiratory illnesses caused by, as I said, coal dust, and all the other wastes and pollutants of traditional power generation. Nuclear plants only go up like one near Chernobyl when a great many things go wrong at once, including the fail-safes for each of those, each event of which is itself highly unlikely of occurring. And when they do, they don't alter the environment the way other means of power generation do when they are routinely operating. The town of Pripyat, within the Zone of Alienation and constructed to house the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant's workers, has become an incredible wildlife hot zone since its evacuation, in which even rare and endangered species are common. The mere presence of humanity, it seems, is much less environmentally damaging than dangerous levels of radiation.
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