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by wbl 2587 days ago
It doesn't. The impact of radiation is a rise in cancer rates which even if they substantially shorten lifetimes aren't X risk.
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Your answer is basically 'radiation causes rise in cancer which can substantially reduce lifetimes is not a risk'.

I don't see how that's reasonable, I suggest you might have typed something incorrectly.

There are still quite a number of risks inherent in the Nuclear process that require only a few operational failures for disaster.

If very smart countries and operationally efficient countries like Japan screw up the risks, then anyone can. And that there were mitigating circumstances does not change the fact that Japan still had great governance and scientists and persisted with either risky models or a failure to measure the risk.

Basically, we'd need to suck the risk out of every part of the process in order for it to work well.

I think it's possible.