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Originally Posted by Catfish
Thanks, this is interesting.
But I still think that nuclear power as mankind uses it is inherent unsafe, and no one knows how to deal with the remnants. B.t.w. Chernobyl is said by experts to have killed between 43 and 14000 People, indirectly of course and hard to prove.
“The risk projections suggest that by now Chernobyl may have caused about 1,000 cases of thyroid cancer and 4,000 cases of other cancers in Europe, representing about 0.01% of all incident cancers since the accident,” it reads. “Models predict that by 2065 about 16,000 (95% UI 3,400–72,000) cases of thyroid cancer and 25,000 (95% UI 11,000–59,000) cases of other cancers may be expected due to radiation from the accident.”
Meaning if one country plays with radio nuclides, the whole world will have to face the consequences of incompetence..
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As for Chernobyl Disaster - better read true experts like Dr. Robert Gale
https://cancerletter.com/articles/chernobyl/ - totally proven number of victims of this tragedy is 31 person. All other numbers are fruit of speculation. Hundreds of former Liquidators had contacts with medicine of different seriousness but most part of them are still alive. And these were the people who were in the most dangerous zone. As for cancer - there is nice tab in Dr Gale's article showing which part of all possible causes radiation takes.