The half-life of the plutonium fuel that is still burning beneath the surface of the reactor has a half-life of 250,000 years. To this day Pripyat is a ghost town.
Nuclear energy comes with the serious risk of meltdown, bunkering toxic bi-product, and cancer causing power-plant emissions to local areas. To this day, we have companies still creating new nuclear powerplants and we rely heavily on nuclear power to provide electricity to our cities.
Focus on greener energy alternatives and stopping the production of new nuclear powerplants is a choice everyone has to make in their local areas.
In the short-term, nuclear provides a big bang for the buck and potentially limitless energy. Green alternatives are in their infancy and provide much lower production of energy, moving over to greener energy would also call for a serious reduction in energy consumption.
In the long-run, nuclear energy will stockpile barrels and barrels of toxic waste that can't be disposed or recycled and the probability for meltdown increases over time. Green alternatives will become cheaper to produce, more efficient and utilizing natural sustainable energy sources like geothermal, waterfalls, wind and solar.
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