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Re:Japan, US to step up cooperation in developing next-gener... by PartiallyTyped on Monday January 09, 2023 @12:46PM (#34313232)
Didn’t that person actually die from cancer and not radiation per se?

I understand that cancer can be caused by radiation, but that is actually treatable and not always fatal, whereas radiation poisoning is afaik fatal.

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Re:Japan, US to step up cooperation in developing next-gener... by amalgamated_inc on Monday January 09, 2023 @01:03PM (#34313546)
This is correct, it is not 100% certain the cancer was caused/exacerbated by the radiation. But let's count it as a conservative 1 death.

It was not acute radiation poisoning.

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