Nuclear energy is clean

Re:Nuclear energy is clean by mah4k4l on Sunday July 31, 2022 @07:29PM (#32299926)

Has affected millions of peoples health already and whole ecosystems. And the consequences will cumulate from this thousands of years. Count that in your equation and get more informative numbers.

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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by yawaramin on Sunday July 31, 2022 @07:57PM (#32300105)

Whose health? Any actual data?

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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by kuhewa on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:24PM (#32300290)

This is in dollars, but 10% of healthcare spending in the US equates to a good amount of health I reckon https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041201...

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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by yawaramin on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:56PM (#32300562)

I was asking about the GP's assertion about health impact of nuclear.

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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by mah4k4l on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:24PM (#32300292)

The dispersed fallout? Hard to quantify because of it's dispersedness and long term slowness. But it is for example plutonium and we know it's effects on life on Earth, so one could proceed from there with some math and futurological trend extrapolation. And simply by using the knowledge we have about plutonium mixed with common sense.

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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by orwin on Sunday July 31, 2022 @08:09PM (#32300191)

I think GP was talking about CO2 (affect millions already, will still be present in a thousand years)

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