/sci/ - Science & Math

i just noticed something
all those movies with "nuclear wastelands" that last for tens or hundreds of years? where nothing grows and all the radiation is "out there" or whatever?

not really that accurate. at all

are there any movies which have a nuclear garden type scenario? flora and fauna tend to bounce back quite quickly from high radiation events assuming the climate is accommodating. The Chernobyl disaster really didn't do anything to the local wildlife outside of certain very heavily irradiated areas. the bikini atols are doing just fine.

it seems reasonable that after a nuclear doomsday event, nature would move back in within a few years at most, except everything would be mildly radioactive due to concentrations of the more radiotoxic stuff like cesium-137. Imagine an obliterated husk of a city, teeming with grasses and shrubs and animals, but you can't really live off anything for long periods due to the cesium bio-accumulation. that seems much more terrifying