Nuclear Meltdown

[My Name is Pain 1]

I need help recovering from a meltdown from my nuclear reactor.  The radiation made the surrounding area useless. I am also spending so much much on hospital services that I am starting to go under.  Does anyone know how to clear the radiation and/or knows how long it takes to dissipate?   

[My Name is Pain 1]

anyone?

[Towel 76]

I need help recovering from a meltdown from my nuclear reactor.  The radiation made the surrounding area useless. I am also spending so much much on hospital services that I am starting to go under.  Does anyone know how to clear the radiation and/or knows how long it takes to dissipate?   

 

A) It takes a long time

 

B) Know one knows how to make it go faster

 

Why not try some things???

 

How about, place a water pump with the water treatment addition, see what happens? Does the water become irradiated or does it clean up the ground pollution?

 

Do parks do anything? Why not try the Nature parks in a small area and report if anything happens? 

 

Does building education in the region improve ground pollution dissipation? Hey try it ...

 

You could be the person who nails a new tip for playing the game!

[CoolColJ 42]

Try planting trees over the site

[Ed_Lane 1]

maybe even the hazmat addition to the fire station might even reduce it worth a shot i havent had a meltdown yet thank god to even try out different things just suggesting ideas

[infoman96 27]

Well thanks for telling us that a meltdown can occur, I'm glad I'm still stuck on Wind power but eventually I know I will need to build something new as my wind power plant now has 24 out of 28 turbines.

[Shardak 8]

I dont think radiation ever goes away.  It appears to be bugged...sometimes it even gets stronger over time.

 

I had a meteor hit ground early on in my city and it left radiation.  I have now gone over 10 years on the same city and the radiation is still there, unchanged.

 

Then I left the game running while I had dinner last night....came back and there had been a disaster which blew up my nuclear reactor...now half my city is dead.

 

Parks and trees do nothing.  I wanted to try a water filtration tank which is supposed to remove ground polution, but the water table on my city is totally gone so I cant turn on the water plant.

[SirChick 184]

No it does go away it takes an insane amount of time. Trees & parks will help.

[JAM041203 1]

Yeah, i regret putting in these nuclear power stations. I had the highest education and sufficent water and everything for these things and they still blew. I recommend not putting these in until we get a firm answer from EA or Maxis. The whole day it just stayed the same...a nuclear waste land. 

 

What i did was i used the university to research cleaner oil power and has worked very well and is cheaper and barely pollutes...

 

However, i did start to see trees randomly growing again in those areas but it took a long time so maybe im getting close to the end. It has taken the whole day though haha...

Well thanks for telling us that a meltdown can occur, I'm glad I'm still stuck on Wind power but eventually I know I will need to build something new as my wind power plant now has 24 out of 28 turbines.

 

Yeah i had 2 happen back to back and then after that a meteor shower happened haha my poor city

[My Name is Pain 1]

Thank You for the replies.     

 

I have tried a few thing and there seems to be no change. 

 

I destroyed and rebuilt.

Set up water plant with max filtration right next to nuclear plant.  Doesn't seem to help in fact it doesn't clean 100% of the water and puts contaminated water into the system.

I have yet to try the parks.

 

I believe the cause was I built the nuclear plant with one elementary school in the town.  I then notice a worker education tag in the nuclear window start out "safe" then turned to "unsafe" then the meltdown.  I have since built a high school, now it indicates safe.  So it defiantly appears your education level must be at least high school to avoid this. 

[aaaling 83]

The "Nuclear Free Zone" ordinance might help, as it says that all existing nuclear plants will be decommissioned. 

[infoman96 27]

The "Nuclear Free Zone" ordinance might help, as it says that all existing nuclear plants will be decommissioned. 

Are you talking about SimCity 4? This is SimCity and I haven't seen any ordinance's on this game thus far; if you are talking about SimCity (2013) please tell me where the ordinance menu is.

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

The "Nuclear Free Zone" ordinance might help, as it says that all existing nuclear plants will be decommissioned. 

 

Lol wrong game!  There are two games called SimCity discussed on these forums now 

 

It's gonna take a while to get used to this...

[aaaling 83]

Are you talking about SimCity 4?

 

Yes.

[Beecher 1]

To make sure your Power Plant stays up, you have to educate your sims.

 

I've plopped down an elementary school, high school, community college and a university. I have everybody in the town enrolled to school, as well as commuters from my own region.

Education is like half a bar away from maxing out, and the tech level was maxed relatively easy early on.

 

It's now been a few months and the power plant is running smoothly, even had to put in another reactor.

 

 

I would NOT recommend using a Nuclear Power Plant until you know everyone is enrolled and educated.

[Panos 29]

Since is common issue the Nuclear meltdown, maybe put a big sign "If you do not have University do not build Nuclear Power Station?"

[kgari87 0]

Lol all of you nuclear gooses haha, don't you remeber what happend to chanoble & fukushima didn't bother to look up spelling, but stay away from nuclear power! It's ugly ain't it, get you're education up or shut it down that will help & lessons learned or not..

[Supertatane 0]

hi everyone, same problem here

I have a "scholar city", schools, high school and university, so I was thinking one little nuclear reactor would be just fine... but no, nuclear meltdown in my face. At the time I was still thinking it was just bad luck, no warning before the explosion, no "unsafe" status or whatever and a lot of other random desasters before that (meteor, gozilla...) so... yeah, I just replaced the reactor... and obviously, it was not bad luck... second nuclear desaster for my poor sims.

So, now I have a big nuclear waste land in the corner of my map, and if all the rest of the city goes very well, I'm really in lack of space now. It was 3 days ago, since I've played the city a lot, at least 10 hours mostly at max speed, and the radiations are still exactly the same.

Is there really no chance my city will one day be ok? They have full green energy now, with nice developments from the university, but the scars from the past don't seems to fade away

[Rhadamant5186 19]

An educated workforce does not necessarily prevent you from having meltdowns. Let me tell you the story of my sweet city Chernobyl....

 

The first meltdown I had was caused by a giant lizard spawning on top of the reactor and causing it to explode into a meltdown. What are the chances that the lizard would spawn directly on the reactor? Really slim. I relocated my reactors to a remote corner of the map.

 

About two years and many many hospital visits later a tornado spawned on my irradiated Chernobyl. Guess where it spawned? Yup, you guessed it, right on my relocated reactors.

 

Moral of the story..... no matter how educated your populace might be nobody is safe from meltdowns. Stick to concentrated solar arrays and vertical turbines if you want clean energy that won't destroy your entire city.

[HenryHerrera 0]

I had the same problem one of my nuclear plants meltdown cant figure out how to get rid of the ground pollution. not only do I get a lot of sick sims but on top of that a lot of the buildings gets abandon or catches on fire bc of the radiation in that particular area. I have no idea how to reduce the ground pollution and the radiation? has anyone try to see if by bulldoze the nuclear plant reduce the radiation/ ground pollution?

[Supertatane 0]

yup, after my second nuclear explosion (...) I've bulldozed it to the ground and replaced it by a nice field of wind power right in the core zone of radiations, since upgraded with the university. The power supply is great, but the radiations rate seems to be exactly the same as day one.
Are nuclear meltdown condamning a city forever? or for centuries, wich in my case would be just the same... I don't think I will play a city this long, especially half of a city... this may be realistic, but it's just a game and in my case I think I've done things by the book, or at the very least with the few explanations the game gave me... ok for random desasters or "gameplay sanctions", but this... it's a little too much in my opinion

[Jaxon_Alpha 2]

Don't if this helps, but I sorta stumbled across this. Last night my reactor exploded just after getting my city to 250K population. Just before I'd been kicked three times before this due to sever issues and having finally gotten online again, Boom! Thus frustrated I killed the I-Net connection (have a tab for it) and shut down the laptop for the night. This morning I logged in to see what had happened to my mini metropol and low and behold no Chernobyl 2. It seems that the immediate connection kill prevented the almighty EA cloud from saving the disaster and the city reverted to a previous save point. Not sure whether this was chance, but it saved the city for the region. 

 

Considering the city is established, I've decided to let start another, let this one run and see what happens. It still producing enough power for another city so maybe it will hold out.

 

MFG

[YukiEiriKun 29]

Lol all of you nuclear gooses haha, don't you remeber what happend to chanoble & fukushima didn't bother to look up spelling, but stay away from nuclear power! It's ugly ain't it, get you're education up or shut it down that will help & lessons learned or not..

 

Well, Chernobyl disaster was caused because they did run some unorthodox tests with the reactor.

"The accident occurred during an experiment scheduled to test a potential safety emergency core cooling feature, which took place during a normal shutdown procedure."

Fukushima was caused by a 15 meter high tsunami hitting the plant.

So ... neither of them really count.

Nucelar power is safe and clean.

Unless you are leftist-greenie-brainwashed and thus support burning stuff because of "renewal energy" or want to depend on inefficient wind / sun power.

[RRtexasranger 45]

An educated workforce does not necessarily prevent you from having meltdowns. Let me tell you the story of my sweet city Chernobyl....

 

The first meltdown I had was caused by a giant lizard spawning on top of the reactor and causing it to explode into a meltdown. What are the chances that the lizard would spawn directly on the reactor? Really slim. I relocated my reactors to a remote corner of the map.

 

About two years and many many hospital visits later a tornado spawned on my irradiated Chernobyl. Guess where it spawned? Yup, you guessed it, right on my relocated reactors.

 

Moral of the story..... no matter how educated your populace might be nobody is safe from meltdowns. Stick to concentrated solar arrays and vertical turbines if you want clean energy that won't destroy your entire city.

I can already tell these stupid natural disasters are going to make me want to pull my hair out. I got 2 earthquakes in 10 minutes just a little bit ago. One of them hit the area where I plopped my Trade and Oil HQ. Both were destroyed, along with their upgrade. It would take about a million dollars to replace the buildings, but I just left the buildings as rubble and it doesn't seem to affect what I can plop, so whatever.

[Rhadamant5186 19]

An educated workforce does not necessarily prevent you from having meltdowns. Let me tell you the story of my sweet city Chernobyl....

 

The first meltdown I had was caused by a giant lizard spawning on top of the reactor and causing it to explode into a meltdown. What are the chances that the lizard would spawn directly on the reactor? Really slim. I relocated my reactors to a remote corner of the map.

 

About two years and many many hospital visits later a tornado spawned on my irradiated Chernobyl. Guess where it spawned? Yup, you guessed it, right on my relocated reactors.

 

Moral of the story..... no matter how educated your populace might be nobody is safe from meltdowns. Stick to concentrated solar arrays and vertical turbines if you want clean energy that won't destroy your entire city.

I can already tell these stupid natural disasters are going to make me want to pull my hair out. I got 2 earthquakes in 10 minutes just a little bit ago. One of them hit the area where I plopped my Trade and Oil HQ. Both were destroyed, along with their upgrade. It would take about a million dollars to replace the buildings, but I just left the buildings as rubble and it doesn't seem to affect what I can plop, so whatever.

 

 

Yeah at least Trade and Oil HQs can be replaced, but irradiated ground doesn't seem to ever clean up. If you've got a few too many nuclear meltdowns in a region, regions may even have to be abandoned.

[Jaxon_Alpha 2]

Lol all of you nuclear gooses haha, don't you remeber what happend to chanoble & fukushima didn't bother to look up spelling, but stay away from nuclear power! It's ugly ain't it, get you're education up or shut it down that will help & lessons learned or not..

 

Well, Chernobyl disaster was caused because they did run some unorthodox tests with the reactor.

"The accident occurred during an experiment scheduled to test a potential safety emergency core cooling feature, which took place during a normal shutdown procedure."

Fukushima was caused by a 15 meter high tsunami hitting the plant.

So ... neither of them really count.

Nucelar power is safe and clean.

Unless you are leftist-greenie-brainwashed and thus support burning stuff because of "renewal energy" or want to depend on inefficient wind / sun power.

 

Both incidents show that Nuclear power isn't safe and definitely not clean. That is what the industry wants us to believe. The technology is simply comfortable, a lot of power for relatively little effort or expense. At least until it comes to storing the by products. We all want cheap power but if the cost is our kids, kids kids cleaning up after us in countless centuries then the question turns to taking the responsibility for our choices and not comfortably passing it to unborn generations.

 

That in mind being against nuclear power isn't greenie brainwashed, its plain common sense. Wind and sun power are far more reliable than many believe and so far I haven't heard about many such plants exploding and contaminating entire regions. 

 

MFG

[Qwonit 0]

I've also had these problems with radiation not dissolving even when years have passed and I haven't figured out a solution. Maybe it is Cs-137 lol

 

Anyways, you guys should forget about power plants and build the Solar Farm great work. It's practically free energy and it gives 3000MW to each city connected to it. That equals to 15 ordinary nuclear reactors and also it doesn't drain the water reserves of your city.

 

- Qwonit

[dan008 2]

if it could add in, after the melt down, sims got infected by the radiation and mutates and becomes a problem. And should add in the army as well. lol

[Treco 1]

I had an earthquake destroy my plant. I shut it down just as the warning for an earthquake came up, I thought that would make me safe if the earthquake destroyed my plant but no that didn't help. So is your only option to just demolish it yourself before it gets destroyed in a natural disaster. I hate that I have to play with  natural disaster. I never seen the fun in something just destroying my city.

[musicfeind2001 1]

I had placed my Nuclear Power Plant almost in a corner, which was a good thing because it only irradiated about 30% of the square. The only thing I could do was redistribute the RCI to migrate housing away from the radiation. Try and center your government buildings (these ignore the land desirability) in the radiation, so your people can live and work where it's clean.

Unfortunagely once I had managed a slight recovery, the second tower had a meltdown also. I tanked after that. Didn't know what to do from there.