Radiation.. Can i get rid of it..

[ArchDan 0]

Damn meteor strike left a big radiation circle in a area of my city, been planting trees there for years but to no avail, is there any way to get rid of it.. Or does it have a 2,000,000 year half life or something lol

[Vaikin 10]

It lasts something like 35 years. I had one hit a residential area, I just put a school on top of it

 

Residents move out when radiated, apparently teachers do not.

[ScottyDoesKnow 8]

34 years per level, 102 years total. And that's if you're constantly putting trees on it. You're basically stuck with it. Hopefully they come out with the disaster disable option soon.

[Supertatane 0]

102 years putting trees on the radiation zone? of how much of real time are we talking here? So with a nuclear meltdown causing a waste land the size of a quarter of the map in the best case, you're basically screwed. I've better things to do than clicking like a bot on my screen for dozens of hours...

[Rian Gray 12]

I had 2 meltdowns in my city; practically making entire city to rely on the arcology (great work) population-wise. And oddly enough, both of them were caused by big lizard.

[ScottyDoesKnow 8]

102 years putting trees on the radiation zone? of how much of real time are we talking here? So with a nuclear meltdown causing a waste land the size of a quarter of the map in the best case, you're basically screwed. I've better things to do than clicking like a bot on my screen for dozens of hours...

 

Cheer up, cheetah speed is back, so it's only 5 days of real time! Seriously though, that areas done for. I'm not playing my favorite city for this reason right now, it's got one small radiation patch and I don't want more. Not playing it until they allow you to disable disasters.

[Griffon 19]

actually everyone leaves due to radiation, I was trying to make my nuclear plant blow up for the secret achievement (has to blow up on it's own with no help from disasters) and I got tired of waiting so I used an earthquake on all 4 reactors, the radiation too up the entire city and every building in the city started being abandoned including industry buildings

 

in a different city I actually waited for it to have a meltdown on it's own, took 2 game years and I was doing everything wrong I possibly could, so disasters are your biggest threat to the nuclear plants

 

my best suggestion is to cover it up with other buildings that are not zones as long as the radiation is small, btw from the cities I played anywhere you have even a little radiation you also have the darkest brown ground pollution

[ArchDan 0]

Thanks everyone for the info

[thatguy90 0]

You Can use a Ground Scrubber its in the cities of tomorrow expansion pack, takes a little time but a lot quicker than just waiting it out 

[zacnlinc 4]

Isn't that a vicious cycle of evil doing? 

Suck up the pollution from the ground to only spew it into the air where it will mix with the air pollution and rain polluted matter back into the groundwater table!!

[Ganappriyan 0]

The best and correct way is using

Air Scrubber.

This building converts land and radiative pollution into air pollution. There by it clears all radiation. Research it from level 4 academy.

 

I had a nuclear power plant and it burst due to lizard. I left the city and started a new one. With that I researched air scrubber and plant it in all polluted area. It is very effective. And also helps to get rid of further land pollution.

[LegendaryGodKing 0]

ground scubber works. i just tried it.