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No. If there is a disaster in a nuclear plant - and those DO happen now and then - this can affect populations hundreds, or even thousands, of kilometers from the power plant.
11.3 square miles
That depends, the three mile island meltdown affected nobody because the containment held everything in and there were no steam or hydrogen explosions. However Chernobyl (no containment, big steam explosion) and Fukushima (containment breached by hydrogen explosions) meltdowns severely contaminated areas well beyond 10 miles distance.
The byproducts from nuclear energy plants pose a threat to the environment and public health if they are not disposed of properly. There is always a small chance of a complete meltdown of a nuclear plant, which would contaminate the environment for miles around the site.
it depends...an ICBM would reach about 50 miles....a regular nuke like Hiroshima around 100 miles it depends on many different variables like hills, urban area even humidity but that's the average distance of a nuclear bomb.
No. If there is a disaster in a nuclear plant - and those DO happen now and then - this can affect populations hundreds, or even thousands, of kilometers from the power plant.
It might survive the blast, but would likely die of radiation within a few days.
It depends on the size of the Nuclear device, anywhere from 5 square miles and up
A nuclear melt down puts the people within hundreds of miles around at risk by being exposed to radiation and dying from it.
11.3 square miles
Yes. Both the Cook and Palisades plants in Michigan are within a 50 miles radius of Elkhart. It is over 50 miles of driving, but it is less than 50 miles as the crow flies.
because Cuba is within 90 miles of Miami and nuclear weapons can easily travel farther than that
That depends, the three mile island meltdown affected nobody because the containment held everything in and there were no steam or hydrogen explosions. However Chernobyl (no containment, big steam explosion) and Fukushima (containment breached by hydrogen explosions) meltdowns severely contaminated areas well beyond 10 miles distance.
more than 20 miles and you would still get burned
no they would burn if they got within miles of the sun.
You would have to be atleast 30 miles away from an individual nuclear power plant to get away from the deadly amounts of radiation.
I would say within 100,000 miles.