Robot2600 posted...
the "effects" wouldn't linger unless something was in the vicinity to get hit, they would radiate away at the speed of light.
so a nearby asteroid or ship could become irradiated, same as chernobyl, but the "space itself" wouldn't have some kind of nuclear "cloud" that lingered.
That's essentially what I was asking.
I figured the radiation would disperse pretty quickly, since irradiating a thirty-mile square cube of space is like irradiating a single atom and expecting it to change a solar system.