The country, which lagged slightly behind the U.S.S.R. Not long after dropping the first two nuclear bombs on Japan, the United States began to devise ways of applying its innovations in atomic science to making not only weapons but energy. Plop some kind of monument to all your efforts.A test explosion created by removing the control rod from a buried nuclear reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory-the same action which resulted in 1961's SL-1 actual accident. You can't plop anything on top of the radiation because those people will get sick and it will reduce the tree surface area, so just draw a circle road around it and keep that ground pollution clear! In a few decades it will be gone. The area is so small that you can keep it covered in trees indefinitely at llama/cheetah (just check up on the ground pollution every once in awhile while playing your city), and they clear relatively quickly if you keep the area clean. Meteor strikes, while not ideal, can be easily dealt with in a normal city. The edges of the map also kind of help? BUT there will be tiny dots of radiation of the very edge of the map that are very difficult to get rid of. Water seems to help but I can't confirm and I don't know if this pollutes the water. Sometimes it forms into a solid area that doesn't burn. In the series of images you can see where I caused a blob of it to break off from the main source (a meteor strike in this case), and flow downhill towards the water until it burns up completely. It is attracted to nearby sources of ground pollution so it has a kind of gravity. It spreads into a core area of dark dark brown and then burns on the light brown outer edges like a sun. The ground pollution is pretty cool to watch. I don't think it would take 1600 years if you got on top of it early but I don't plan on testing this. I had 9 different strike sites over the years, and 3 of those got hit by at least two meteors (as they dissipate, you can see the core of the second strike on the radiation map). They may all be the same intensity but the circles are still there! As you burn off the outer band it will dissipate but the inner layers will just turn into yet another layer to burn off! And, as you are spending the years cleaning it up, you absolutely WILL get struck by a few radiation depositing meteors (more on meteors later). You will get either 4 or 5 giant circles of radiation. With a power plant disaster the area will be so huge that your city is basically worthless. I found sucking up all the dark brown ground pollution, then letting it expand again, then sucking it up and letting it expand, rinse, repeat, was pretty easy to do for a large area, and pretty effective. Encourage those cracks by planting trees around them. Eventually little cracks or bubbles will form in the radiation layer. I sped things up to 100x speed and just planted trees continuously, for RL DAYS of real time. You can either watch the ground pollution map or no map, and you want to make as much of the area clean for as long as possible. It is possible to plant enough trees that the ground pollution is constantly absorbed. So to get rid of it as fast as possible you want it to have the maximum white/very light brown surface area for it to spread into. But it seems like the rate of radiation -> ground pollution will slow as the ground gets more and more saturated. The radiation wants to turn into ground pollution and that ground pollution wants to spread to the surrounding area (somewhat fast) and burn off into air pollution (slower, but can be sped up by trees). The thing is, you don't really have a radiation problem, you have a ground pollution problem. sorry I didn't take that many screenshots, I only thought to towards the end: At 100x it is kind of beautiful to watch. I would REALLY like to look at the code for the radiation -> ground pollution -> air pollution process. I don't know if the 34 year figure quoted by maxis means 34 years of converting to ground pollution or what but it took me much longer to get rid of it all. I can only assume that Maxis never thought anyone would actually do it. I cleaned it up but I would not recommend the process. I had a nuclear power plant disaster very early on in my city's life.
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