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What other deaths due to nuclear energy do you think are missing from the list? Uranium mining?
by Ensorceled 8y ago
What other deaths due to nuclear energy do you think are missing from the list? Uranium mining?
- Tepix 8y agoFor one, increased occurances of cancer leading to death. For example the rate of leucemia among small children living near nuclear plants in Germany is twice as high as average (see https://www.bfs.de/DE/bfs/wissenschaft-forschung/ergebnisse/kikk/kikk-studie.html https://www.bfs.de/DE/bfs/wissenschaft-forschung/ergebnisse/... )
- eMSF 8y agoYou'd need a solid theory to explain that to assure others it's not just poorly gathered data. Perhaps purposefully so. In any case, the millions of tons of coal that Germany burns instead, thanks to German "greens", will cause a lot more death and suffering.
- sampo 8y ago> the rate of leucemia among small children living near nuclear plants in Germany is twice as high as average Here is a 2013 British study, where kids born in the vicinity of British nuclear power plants, have less leukemia: https://www.nature.com/articles/bjc2013560 https://www.nature.com/articles/bjc2013560 Here is a 2011 article that claims that the 2008 German study did not correct for confounding factors such as socioeconomic status: https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110506/full/news.2011.275.html https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110506/full/news.2011.275.h...
- acidburnNSA 8y agoExactly. You can confirm a lot of bias looking at noisy data. This is what the Germans did in that study. Germany is very irrationally anti-nuclear. They shut down their nukes after Fukushima and replaced them with burning more coal, killing thousands of people in the process. They mean well but are totally misguided.