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The second nuclear apocalypse would have happened even without Jaha finding ALIE and without ALIE chipping everyone. The second nuclear apocalypse is a side effect of the first one, so in that sense, ALIE is still at fault. ALIE warned Clarke of it, but it would have happened even without the warning.

Per Raven, "The [nuclear power] plants were built to be self-sustaining for a hundred years. So the warrantee just ran out." Per ALIE, "The nuclear power plants that weren't destroyed by the bombs have been begun to melt down." Because no-one has sustaining the plants in a hundred years, they melt down & cause the death wave.