The Nuclear Plant provides a boost of 25% in the <l:6,104>city<e>'s <l:6,93>production<e>, but with some risk. The Nuclear Plant creates minimal amounts of radioactive waste, which require disposal and storage for up to thousands of years before the radioactivity dissipates. Also, three-eyed fish and phocomelia are not unknown to the citizens who live nearby, which results in their <l:6,96>happiness<e> decrease by 1. No correlation has been conclusively drawn between proximity to the plant and the defects, however, and overall <l:6,91>pollution<e> is reduced by 50%.