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by Turing_Machine 3969 days ago
"It is not yet known whether the man's death was due to radiation exposure."

Hint: it wasn't. Radiation exposure can cause cancer, certainly. It doesn't cause sudden unexplained death years later, as happened with this fellow.

"And then how many people in the broader public have died or are dying now from the cancerous radioactive isotopes"

If you have a hard number, share it with us. Be sure to account for the fact that coal plants put more radioisotopes into the atmosphere than nuclear plants, per unit of energy generated.