20 Things That Would Happen if Humans Disappeared From Earth Overnight
| September 14, 2016
Nuclear plants will melt down
Although nuclear plants have stopped producing power, that doesn’t mean they would be harmless if not manned by humans.
About a month after a mass human exit, emergency generators would run out and the cooling pools used to control nuclear substances would evaporate, causing mass nuclear explosions far worse than Chernobyl or Fukushima. Pockets of dangerous radiation that could potentially remain for thousands of years would span the globe.
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