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Re:BYU profs create new nuclear reactor to produce nuclear e... by Retric on Friday October 07, 2022 @08:03AM (#33120097)
Three mile island is believed to have caused between 0 and 2 deaths from very low level radiation exposure to the general population. Better cancer treatments means this could very well be 0, but we don’t actually know.
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Re:BYU profs create new nuclear reactor to produce nuclear e... by replygirl on Friday October 07, 2022 @11:43AM (#33122858)
"zero confirmed deaths after 43 years" sounds a lot like "zero confirmed deaths" to me
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Re:BYU profs create new nuclear reactor to produce nuclear e... by Retric on Friday October 07, 2022 @12:02PM (#33123126)
You couldn’t confirm any deaths if the expectation was 2,000 deaths from cancer either. Even for cancers that are highly correlated with specific causes an environmental risk could have caused the original cell’s mutation(s).
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