San Onofre nuclear plant permanntly shut down

Area around chernobyl remains uninhabitable 25 years later (article from 2011/2012)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/area-around-chernobyl-remains-uninhabitable-25-years-later/article4266317/

Radiation levels around the plant remain so high that authorities do not expect the area to be inhabitable for between 180 and 320 years.

It is hard to know how many people were killed or sickened by the Chernobyl disaster. More than 300,000 were moved, many not until weeks after the radiation was known to be lethal. Most of the fallout landed in what is now Belarus, a secretive and difficult authoritarian state. Aside from the 57 people immediately killed, studies have suggested that anywhere from 2,000 to hundreds of thousands of people may have contracted cancer and other radiation-related diseases. Birth defects are measurably higher in the areas of Belarus and Ukraine near Chernobyl.
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Chernobyl exclusion zone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation (Ukrainian: Зона відчуження Чорнобильської АЕС, zona vidchuzhennya Chornobyl's'koyi AES) is the officially designated exclusion area around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster.[4]:p.4-5:p.49f.3 It is commonly known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and also as the 30 Kilometer Zone or simply The Zone[4]:p.2-5 (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська зона, Chornobyl's'ka zona).
Established soon after the disaster in 1986 by the USSR military it initially existed as an area of 30 kilometer radius from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant designated for evacuation and placed under military control.[5][6] Its borders have since been altered, covering a larger area of the territory of Ukraine. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone refers to the area within Ukraine which borders a separately administered area, the Polesie state radiation and ecological reserve, to the north in Belarus. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is managed by an agency of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine whilst the power plant itself and its sarcophagus (and replacement) are administered separately.
The Exclusion Zone covers an area of approximately 2,600 km2[7] in Ukraine immediately surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant where radioactive contamination from fallout is highest and public access and inhabitation are restricted. Other areas of compulsory resettlement and voluntary relocation which are not part of the restricted exclusion zone exist in the surrounding areas and throughout Ukraine.[8]
The purpose of the Exclusion Zone is to restrict access to hazardous areas, reduce the spread of radiological contamination and conduct radiological and ecological monitoring activities.[9] Today, the Exclusion Zone is one of the most radioactively contaminated areas in the world and draws significant scientific interest due to the high levels of radiation exposure in the environment, as well as increasing interest from tourists.[10]
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