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Another fun thing to think about is that the professor mentioned that they were afraid that killing the MUTOs would cause nuclear fallout in the surrounding area, and yet when the couple was taken out in SanFran, no such phenomenon seems to occur.

At first I considered it as another plot hole (or Graham was wrong), but then I realized that Godzilla was in vicinity when they were dismantled, it could be that when Godzilla passed out after the battle (or even during the entirity of his pressence in SanFran) he absorbed all runoff radiation that leaked out from the MUTOs overnight, leaving the city clean of radiation.

If this theory is true, then the safest way to take down an ancient Kaiju of the LegendaryVerse would be to have another one killing them and absorb the leakung radiation, and it might be a possible reason why Godzilla's role would be more important than ever in later films.