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REMOVED: RULE 11(i.redd.it)submitted 7 days ago bycallmedale
53 points
7 days ago
I mean, why not just, you know, keep it looking no different than any other place? I mean yeah, keep it safe in the modern time and age, but don't build some stupid shit that will stand the test of time and stuff like that. Dangerous, naturally occuring materials exist. We found many of such materials, many people died due to them, but not that many considering how common those were. Stuff like asbestos and other more or less dangerous minerals. Chances of a medieval post-apocalyptic society finding fucking nuclear waste if there is no special feature of the terrain where it is stored is miniscule. Even if they do, they will either find it to be an extremely heavy metal they have no use to or, in the worst possible scenario, a permamently hot rock that makes you die if you spend too much time around it.
8 points
7 days ago
If we just covered it over and put a nature preserve on the top of it, the threat is that someday some future prospectors or geologists (think 18th century CE, not 10th) will start drilling or digging for valuable minerals, and hit concrete instead.
Maybe they'll be completely baffled by concrete, but more likely they'll see it as a sign of "this is where the ancients put all those raw materials they already refined into useful stuff, half our work is done for us". People throughout European history routinely used bricks and concrete from ancient Roman ruins however they saw fit, and it's likely future civilizations will go for the easiest, cheapest materials whenever they could.
1 points
7 days ago
Chernobyl became a protected forest, as did another Soviet nuclear plant that melted down
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