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by vkou
3244 days ago
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> And how many Fukushimas, Chernobyls and Three Mile Islands are we prepared to endure until we actually reach this hypothetical point in human history? Why are you listing TMI alongside actual nuclear disasters? There was a reactor meltdown. Containment worked exactly as expected. Not a single person died. If we held the rest of the energy generation industry to such a standard, we'd be living in caves and banging rocks together for warmth. |
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Because that's where it belongs, just like Kyshtym.
> Containment worked exactly as expected. Not a single person died.
What a convenient claim to make considering the long term effects of the radiation usually show in the form of cancer and a direct correlation can never be made except when doing massive epidemiological studies on the affected populations, which rarely happens.
It's this very same dynamic which allows people to make outrageous claims along the lines of "Nobody died from Chernobyl radiation, it was all just naturally occurring cancer!"
Meanwhile, people in the US are still wondering how and why cancer clusters happen [0]. Look at that map, look the red spots and with a little bit knowledge of the US nuclear industry you will realize what's around that area. What a coincidence? That's what it probably is, just a coincidence because admitting anything else to the public wouldn't really play that well, so coincidence it has to be [1].
[0] http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/24/health/cancer-cluster-disp...
[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37517770