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by chickenbig 23 days ago
> intentional Polonium 210 from decay chains

What do you mean "decay chains"? Po-210 decays to Pb-206 which is stable. So you mean Po-210 decay. Let's shut down the chemical industry because someone attempted to poison The Skripals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_... .

> medical mistakes

Spent nuclear fuel is generally not used for medical isotopes. They specially prepare samples for irradiation to not have to use reprocessing, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt-60#Production .

> I could have a look for you

It would be illuminating to see what you find reasonable.

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1. Uranium miners have high risk of lung cancer due to radon gas and decay products.

https://www.cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca/eng/resources/research/canadian-...

2. Workers exposed to alpha-emitting materials like plutonium/uranium show increased risk of lung cancer

https://www.ovid.com/jnls/epidem/fulltext/10.1097/ede.000000...

3. Plant operators within heavily regulated work areas are usually unaffected, and show an odd statistical wellness anomaly inconsistent with control groups. However, if one includes accidents/events with collateral impact:

https://www.cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca/eng/resources/health/health-effe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident...

4. Waste management incidents are difficult to quantify over 30000 year time scales. However, the industry has failed to even maintain containment for 30 years at some sites.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141129021716/http://www.katu.c...

>It would be illuminating to see what you find reasonable.

Cheap distributed sustainable infrastructure more robust against conflicts/regulatory-capture/arms-proliferation, and leave a light footprint for those yet to live here. Good luck, =3