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Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants by protastus on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:39PM (#29751731)
> How many people died from Chernobyl? About 50, despite over 100,000 people working at the site on cleanup. The adjacent reactors continued to run and provide power for about a decade after the incident.

I am surprised you're quoting official Soviet numbers. Numbers that weren't updated since the early days of the accident.

> How many people died of radiation poisoning at Fukushima? Zero.

At what cost?

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Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants by jacquesm on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:44PM (#29751788)
Besides the spike in thyroid cancers, from the Baltics to Poland, Romania and Ukraine on down.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/04/1008292

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Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants by sam_lowry_ on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @02:10PM (#29813453)
This is 4000 deaths spread statistically over I do not remember how many tens of years.

Check for yourself: https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub913e_web.p...

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