We've had Chernobyl where the core was fully exposed and recently-high-power radionuclides were aerosolize by a graphite fire and the people in nearby populatio

We've had Chernobyl where the core was fully exposed and recently-high-power radionuclides were aerosolize by a graphite fire and the people in nearby population centers were not quickly evacuated nor given iodine tablets nor told to not drink the milk, and by the UN consensus study UNSCEAR (parallel to IPCC) showed that 60 first heroic responders died from acute radiation syndrome and "up to 4000" will die of early cancers, on top of a population where millions would die from cancer naturally (small increase). In later revisions, they refused to even give a number [1] due to uncertainties associated with the conservative linear no-threshold model. Also: the operation error and design flaws at Chernobyl were astounding [2]. Then we had Fukushima, where an earthquake trigggered an automatic shutdown of the reactors, which worked great. Then the tsunami knocked out the backup cooling generators and decay heat melted fuel and released nuclides through an in-tact reactor vessel to the atmosphere. Multiple meltdowns. What does UNSCEAR have to say? 0 deaths from radiation. Some sources say "up to 1 death from radiation". I think it's really, really hard to postulate millions dying from nuclear. 4 million die per year from air pollution due to non-nuclear energy [3]. [1] https://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2008/09-86753_Report_2008_GA_Report_corr2.pdf https://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2008/09-86753_Report_20... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident#Accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident#Accident [3] https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/ https://www.who.int/airpollution/en/