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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by AlchemistCamp on Friday July 08, 2022 @08:07AM (#32026073)
The death toll for the Fukushima nuclear plant (as opposed to to deaths from the tsunami) is either zero or one. There was one 80 year-old who died of lung cancer, but it's unclear whether the cause was radiation from the incident or if he'd have died of lung cancer anyway as many 80 year-old smokers in Japan do.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sofialottopersio/2021/11/04/no-...

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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by pfdietz on Saturday July 09, 2022 @03:40AM (#32032820)
The population exposure from radiation from Fukushima will likely cause some hundreds of cancers. These will not be statistically detectable, but that doesn't mean they won't exist and that policy cannot take their plausible existence into account.
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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by AlchemistCamp on Saturday July 09, 2022 @04:38AM (#32033138)
Any sources for this estimation? I've read nothing even remotely close to that prediction. At its peak, people in Fukushima city were only receiving ~0.06 mSv/day of radiation. This only lasted a couple of days. The vast majority of people didn't even face that since they were evacuated.

In contrast, a transatlantic flight results in about 0.1 mSv of radiation. Someone getting a single abdomen x-ray would get over 0.2 mSv.

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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by pfdietz on Saturday July 09, 2022 @06:34AM (#32033693)
It's a ballpark from 2 million people exposed to an extra dose of about 1 mSv.
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