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by pvaldes 2114 days ago
> Fukushima killed 0 people

We could repeat this as many times as we want, but will be still a false statement.

If disinformation will continue to be the standard solution for managing all nuclear challenges, we are not ready for an adult discussion about it. Therefore nobody should be allowed to use this technology until we mature as species and we'll be able to focus in the real issues.
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iso1631 2114 days ago
How many people did Fukishima kill then?
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pvaldes 2114 days ago
The answer for this question will not be available until the last Fukushima radiation will decay. Ask again in 100 years.

But in the meanwhile, I'll gave you something to meditate about. After the first 10 months baby mortality increased suddenly in the areas affected by radiation (and only in those areas). More than 1000 newborn died en excess with respect to the areas not affected. I assume that not all of those were evacuated, so evacuation is not the problem here.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5044925/

Surprise, surprise, human foetuses are very sensitive to even low "safe?" doses of radiation, leading to miscarriages or lack of inner organs in non-viable newborns.

So, if those babies weren't fu*d by Fukushima, how would you explain that? With this information in mind, do you still consider that areas with and without radiation are equally safe?

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LargoLasskhyfv 2113 days ago
Similar thing [1] happened in Berlin 9 months after Chernobyl. More babies than usual/expected were born with Trisomy 21.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/309/6948/158.full

Actually that is not what I searched for, but the only thing I found(after a casual search). I remember it to be more, dispersed all over the former German Democratic Republic which accounted for it, while the Bundesrepublik Deutschland didn't, or at least not at the times.

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