Originally Posted by thommy

we do not really need a war. we still did not even get rid of chernobyl and nobody knows if we EVER get rid of it or it the big catastrophe is still not here yet.

many people think that this what happend 31 years ago in ukraine is resolved - but it is not.
the problem they have there is that they can not get rid of the plutonium in the area.
plutonium 241 forms a new element in decay which is even more dangerous than plutonium itself: americium 241

americium 241 is water soluble what means it can reach the ground water and can reach the atmosphere in form of dust and rain down everywhere on the planet.

there is no fucking way to prevent that and in the next 20 or 30 years billions of tons of plutonium contaminated material will disintegrate in americium.

then the smallest problem will be that the area around Chernobyl will not be habitable for thousands of years - the much bigger problem will then be traveling around the planet.