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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by greenthrow on Friday September 20, 2024 @11:45AM (#41603122)
Focusing on deaths is a nice trick of the nuclear industry because the largest negative impacts of their disasters and even non-disaster costs of operation are still terrible but do not manifest as immediate deaths.
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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by Ukv on Friday September 20, 2024 @11:54AM (#41603193)
> but do not manifest as immediate deaths.

This isn't just counting immediate deaths - else it'd just be ~30 for Chernobyl and ~0 for Fukushima.

In fact, Fukushima's death count seems to primarily be down to that "people had died indirectly as a result of the physical and mental stress of evacuation" - which I feel should at least partially be put on the tsunami that killed 20000.

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