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Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by seanmcdirmid on Monday December 12, 2022 @08:11PM (#33963218)
> Safety standards were set higher and higher because accidents kept happening, resulting in some well-known extremely large scale disasters and numerous minor ones.

I think Chernobyl was the only really big nuclear plant disaster right? And even then, what we've really learned in the long term is that human habitation is more dangerous to wildlife than nuclear radiation (the area around the plant is now a thriving wildlife preserve).

Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by cwingrav on Monday December 12, 2022 @09:35PM (#33963977)
Fukushima, Kyshtym… those are the other bad ones.
Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by epivosism on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:25AM (#33965166)
FYI, there were zero radiation deaths from Fukishima, although there were ~2200 from the evacuation. Keep in mind this was during the aftermath of a tsunami.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by polytely on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @04:56AM (#33966685)
I think there was a lot of hard work that went into to prevention of anything worse happening at Fukushima. At least that is what I remember from reading the iaea report a couple of years ago. I remember it being a very good and interesting read: https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1710-Repor...
Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by trashtester on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:48AM (#33967079)
I think 1 person from the cleanup crew eventually got a cancer linked to the accident, but maybe he survivied?
Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by cma on Monday December 12, 2022 @09:16PM (#33963798)
Didn't they dig up the area around it and bury it under itself?