...nuketown is a test site in a secured area, where nobody could enter without permission... makes me think of a south park (or simpson ?) episode where a kid gets blocked by mistake in a shelter and all the city is looking after him... wich can't be the case here since it's not a personnal shelter in the backyard of your neighboor, but the federal government's property, on a secret site in the middle of a desert...
anyway i can't imagine this marlton kid living with his family in nuketown, since it's not à real town...
as for your tchernobyl essay it is all good except for one point : there is no cooling system under the reactor, this solution was too expensive, they never did it, it's just concrete under there.