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Thanks for your factful reply :) Regarding the nuclear risk - it is driven by incidents. If the plant had not incidents, there would be no risk. E.g. the chil
by codingbot3000 1y ago
Thanks for your factful reply :)
Regarding the nuclear risk - it is driven by incidents. If the plant had not incidents, there would be no risk.
E.g. the childhood leukemia risk is double inside a 5km radius, and there is no good explanation for this (except the occasional release of radioactive exhaust in case of incidents). (https://www.bfs.de/DE/bfs/wissenschaft-forschung/wirkung-risiken-ion/stellungnahmen/kikk-europa-und-usa.html https://www.bfs.de/DE/bfs/wissenschaft-forschung/wirkung-ris..., link is in German, sorry)
Same is true for the nuclear plant workers. Their cancer risk grows linearly with their exposure - which I assume is also an effect of minor incidents, especially if you exclude lung cancer (smoking was quite popular in the 20th century...). See e.g. https://www.aerztezeitung.de/Medizin/Krebsrisiko-im-Kernkraftwerk-erhoeht-235208.html https://www.aerztezeitung.de/Medizin/Krebsrisiko-im-Kernkraf...
- AustinDev 1y agoThe childhood Leukemia link is something I didn't know. Very interesting. On the worker front it makes sense that there is some linear correlation. I wonder how radiation exposure for workers compares to say a fighter jet pilot with 10,000 hours. In a fighter jet you have very little if any protection from radiation present at higher altitudes.