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Out of curiosity, is there a single death that is directly attributable to nuclear waste from a reactor? (want to add that last clause because I do not think nu
by evgen 6y ago
Out of curiosity, is there a single death that is directly attributable to nuclear waste from a reactor? (want to add that last clause because I do not think nukes should get blamed for someone improperly dumping medical equipment with cobalt or cesium isotope generators) For some reason I want to assume this happened at some point, maybe back in the 50s or 60s when we were really sloppy with nuclear waste but I can't seem to find any.
- selectodude 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident That's the one you're thinking of. Brazil, 1987.
- evgen 6y agoYeah, that was the one that made me add the medical waste clause in my question. There have been a couple of cases of poor handling of these devices, but as far as I can tell there do not seem to be any deaths from actual reactor waste.