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I exaggerated with "anyone near the plant", but accidentally allowing 800 cubic meters of radioactive plasma/gas starting at 150 million degrees to suddenly expand would certainly hurt any human being it comes into contact with.

Hopefully it wouldn't actually be that hard to construct a reinforced concrete shield around the actual reactor to prevent an explosion of the high temp, high pressure, radioactive material from reaching too far into the facility.

The reactor and all its complex components would almost certainly be utterly destroyed, so even if no human victims are made, the money will just have to be written off.



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