"The science" never said that it would be uninhabitable for 100 years. Some people threw that number based on little knowledge they had about the radioactive fallout of that nature, big difference... French authorities among others completely underplayed the nuclear fallout, actually... Because, they had vested interests, because it would have been a fucken bad press for the french nuclear program/the park of nuclear reactors they were building back then...
A nuclear power plant accident isn't the same as an atmospheric nuclear bomb test, or an underground test, in terms of fallout/pollution, and it can be worse...
And chernobyl could have turned much worse if not for russian intervention over it btw, which was in hindsight, fairly well dealt with
Now if you want to grow your veggies over there and eat them go for it, I'll pass
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