Simcity 5, Does Radiation ever go away?

[jorvdog]

Had a meltdown, and its been over a year.  Does the Radiation ever go away?

[stickerr7]

I had a meltdown at Year 3...  I decided to let my game run and now i'm at year 31 and its only slightly decreased... The outerbands are starting to fade... The inner bands haven't moved...  

[mahahnahmhawho]

I read somewhere within the past couple weeks that it takes about 20 years for radiation to begin dissipating.

[scotydoesknow]

Worst case I've heard is 32 years per level, so 96 years to go away. Basically if you get hit by a meteor, part of your city is unusable forever.

[josuhard]

96 years???

I better leave my city, then.

[ross2075]

So radiation stays for an insainly long period of time with no way to clean it up but resources like water are gone in a few months?

[josuhard]

Yes, sir.

But if you are having problems with water, just treat the sewage water and reuse it.

[EA_Francois]

I know trees tend to absorb pollution (and they die, and you put new ones up, etc.), but I don't know about radiation. Probably worth a try.

[PopTartS2000]

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@scotydoesknow wrote:

Worst case I've heard is 32 years per level, so 96 years to go away. Basically if you get hit by a meteor, part of your city is unusable forever.

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Good thing our given sizes are so large! Wouldn't it really suck if we had really small city tiles?

[chadinark]

had same prob not w/ a meltdown but with a meteor (or maybe ufo?) ... never seems to go away.  I finally just said screw it and built a park over it.  (fortunately it was a small area).