Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26247132-20160520020402/@comment-27565137-20160522005113

Jimmy782 wrote: Not true people survived the Hiroshima and Nagasaki and people still live on those islands most are born fine some I think stil are born with deformities like with the Grounders it's survivable be it a bomb or h bomb even Chernobyl has wild life again still humans are forbidden to go to to possible contamination but in the 100 world that doesn't really matter. We're talking about multiple reactors meltingdown at the same time. Or close enough.

Even Chernobyl, no one lives there, to this day. And why do you think that is so?! Because you can't be more than a hour in that place even with a radiation suit, without getting the equal dosage to dozens of CAT scans in that period of time. Now imagine a entire day, week, month, year. In one year time you'd either be dead or dying from multiple cancers growing throughout your entire body. And Hiroshima and Nagasaki have only now in recent years seen some people returning, but not without consequences. There's still way above normal cases, of blindness, infertility, mutations of the fetus or simple development of cancer related diseases. Like bone, brain, and other types of cancer related diseases.

And we can't compare the meltdown of a nuclear power plant to the detonation of a A-bomb. Usually a A-bomb carries a few kilograms of nuclear fuel. More precisely uranium-235. A nuclear power plant, each reactor contains hundreds of kilograms of the same stuff. And Chernobyl if memory serves me well had three or four reactors. So a meltdown in terms of overral damage, makes a A-bomb look a sneeze.

And the wild life that you speak off, studies have shown that fetus from those animals are being born with mutations. Some of which are so terrible that animals lifespan has been greatly reduced. The only thing thriving in Chernobyl are insects. Spiders, worms, butterflies and other insects have shown some abnormal growth. In some cases, like those of spiders, they've actually been multiplying at an above normal rate. But that's the case of insects. Anything but insects don't so so well in high radioactive environments.

Either way. All that radioactivity released at the same time would contaminate the world for thousands or even hundred of thousands of years. Good luck having a bunker that can sustain people for that long.