Thursday, June 23, 2011

Mutants In The News — Leakin' Like A Sieve Edition

Those muckrakers at the AP are at it again, reporting on prolific leaks of radioactive contamination from aging reactors.

"Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping...."

Here's an evocative quote, just ripe for any Mutant Lord wanting to set an adventure in a ruined reactor itself:

"Like rust under a car, corrosion has propagated for decades along the hard-to-reach, wet underbellies of the reactors...."




(Image courtesy of Boing-Boing, by way of Jay's awesome Gamma World War! blog.  He's got more maps there, and I wouldn't have known such pix existed without his amazing find.)

2 comments:

  1. I saw this too. When the mutant cockroaches rise and half-bury the satute of liberty on some beach we'll have nobody to blame but ourselves. ;)

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  2. Thanks for the shout out. The links on my post should take you to larger/higher-res versions, which would be usable at the game table.

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