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Chernobyl is as close as it can get to the worst case. The estimation of amount of victims depends on who you ask. There's no dispute about ~30 people who died
by maratc 5y ago
Chernobyl is as close as it can get to the worst case.
The estimation of amount of victims depends on who you ask. There's no dispute about ~30 people who died of radiation. There is a huge dispute about others, with figures going all the way between tens of thousands and about a million.
In Fukushima's case, it's also argued that more people died as a result of evacuation than would have died of radiation (if no evacuation would have been ordered).
Pro-nuclear groups pull their estimates to one side, anti-nuclear to the opposite side.
- rdtwo 5y agoAlso you have to compare safety to the alternative of coal