Agree with everything but the last bit. It is possible to find fragments of the core itself still in the area with a kilometer or so of the reactor. These tiny fragments are high level nuclear waste.
To the extend that you can currently find fragments of the core, that’s the result of it not being worthwhile to clean those up. Cleaning up an area of a kilometer is not that hard if you want to do it.
Agree with everything but the last bit. It is possible to find fragments of the core itself still in the area with a kilometer or so of the reactor. These tiny fragments are high level nuclear waste.
https://youtu.be/ejZyDvtX85Y
To the extend that you can currently find fragments of the core, that’s the result of it not being worthwhile to clean those up. Cleaning up an area of a kilometer is not that hard if you want to do it.