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> These radiation turned out to have almost no health consequences in the population. Thousands died of thyroid cancer but for the population that is easily de
by Jon_Lowtek 4y ago
> These radiation turned out to have almost no health consequences in the population.
Thousands died of thyroid cancer but for the population that is easily described as "almost no consequences" due to scale.
https://unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/pressrels/2018/unisous395.html https://unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/pressrels/2018/unisous395....
The death of a man is a catastrophe. A thousand deaths is a statistic!
- varajelle 4y agoYour source does not support what you claim. > About 20,000 cases of thyroid cancer cases were registered in the period 1991−2015 in males and females, who were under 18 in 1986 for the whole of Belarus and Ukraine, and for the four most contaminated oblasts of the Russian Federation. The Scientific Committee now estimates that one in four of those cases is attributable to radiation exposure. This is not about Germany, but about the area much closer to the power plant. Also thyroid cancer has a 98% survival rate according to Wikipedia. So that would amount to 20000 * 0.25 * 0.02 ≈ 100 death caused by the accident in the most impacted area. Which is a catastrophe, but also not an apocalypse But I was talking about Germany anyway where the most alarmist messages were delivered about the danger on the German population.