Part of the problem - and I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating - with nuclear power plants is they don't just "sit there" if left unattended. Spent nuclear fuel is kept in a cooling pond, and despite the name "spent" it is still quite active, just not enough so to generate electricity. It is active enough to boil off the water keeping it cool, so that water must be circulated (and more water must be pumped in).
When that water boils off, you now have a mini-Chernobyl at every unattended nuclear facility adding to the already quite radioactive landscape around it.
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