I saw a video that said that Chernobyl will not be habitable for another 20,000 years. I was curious as to why it takes so long to clean up radioactive contamination? Also for Chernobyl specifically as technology progresses couldn’t we find new methods that significantly reduce the amount it takes for Chernobyl to be habitable again?
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In: Chemistry
A lot of radiation you just can’t clean up; it’s in the fauna, the ground, the water, everything.
When we give these measures of how long it’ll take for these places to be habitable again, it’s not a measure of how long it’ll take us to clean up, it’s a measure of how long it’ll take for the radioactive material to decay to a negligible degree.
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