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Except you know, Chernobyl and Fukushima.
The present Chernobyl exclusion (no entry) zone to this day after 26 years continues to be approx 20-40 miles around the plant, that's a a total area of around 20-30k square miles. Chernobyl got lucky because it was in the middle of no where, Fukushima got lucky in that the prevailing winds blew much of the radiation out to sea (or they just dumped it in the ocean) but many, most reactors won't have that luxury.
Can you imagine if San Onofre has an earthquake? Buh bye LA, orange county and San Diego.
Those are basically the only two real incidents in about 100 years of nuclear history though.