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Re:A tale of two particles: Not all radioactivity is risky o... by pydry on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:47PM (#33884118)
Wind, solar, batteries and pumped storage have yet to kill 240,000 people and are cheaper than nuclear power. It's not 1980 any more.
Re:A tale of two particles: Not all radioactivity is risky o... by acidburnNSA on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:59PM (#33884323)
Nuclear has yet to kill 240,000 people as well. Fossil and biofuel normal-operation particulates kill a high-ball long-term Chernobyl worth of people every 8 hours.
Re:A tale of two particles: Not all radioactivity is risky o... by twaw on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @10:18PM (#33890266)
Emm, these people are killed by cancer, every year. Unless we will find cure for cancer very soon, Chornobyl kills dozens of thousands per year right now.
Re:A tale of two particles: Not all radioactivity is risky o... by acidburnNSA on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @10:30PM (#33890333)
That's outrageously inconsistent with all scientific studies.

"Among the residents of Belarus, Russian Federation and Ukraine, there had been up to the year 2005 more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer reported in children and adolescents who were exposed at the time of the accident, and more cases can be expected during the next decades. Notwithstanding the influence of enhanced screening regimes, many of those cancers were most likely caused by radiation exposures shortly after the accident. Apart from this increase, there is no evidence of a major public health impact attributable to radiation exposure two decades after the accident. There is no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality rates or in rates of non-malignant disorders that could be related to radiation exposure. The incidence of leukaemia in the general population, one of the main concerns owing to the shorter time expected between exposure and its occurrence compared with solid cancers, does not appear to be elevated."

https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html

Note that thyroid cancers rarely lead to fatality.

Re:A tale of two particles: Not all radioactivity is risky o... by scatters on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @10:29PM (#33890328)
That's only because they haven't been in use at scale for as long. Solar power kills more people than nuclear does, and wind isn't far behind.