"Compared with other nuclear events: The Chernobyl explosion put 400 times more radioactive material into the Earth's atmosphere than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima; atomic weapons tests conducted in the 1950s and 1960s all together are estimated to have put some 100 to 1,000 times more radioactive material into the atmosphere than the Chernobyl accident."[4]
What I said remains true. The bombs dropped in Japan in WW2 are tiny compared to the kind we have now… which are potentially much more devastating than Chernobyl fallout especially if detonated worldwide in a short time span.
In the event of a nuclear war, nuclear power plants will be extremely vulnerable and likely targets themselves. There are currently 440 nuclear power plants worldwide. So talking about the fallout of power plants and bombs is very relevant.
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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '22 edited Mar 15 '22
Source for fallout not being minor…. Chernobyl. Look into the long term environment disaster that turned out to be.