I treat public industry estimates of death from nuclear power which the same integrity I treat the fossil fuel industry reports on climate change. They are both

I treat public industry estimates of death from nuclear power which the same integrity I treat the fossil fuel industry reports on climate change. They are both intrinsically motivated to systematically deny the ill effects. And if you dig into the deaths you’ll find that basically any plausibly deniable cancer death is discounted. And accounting for disasters like Fukushima will try to discount deaths due to evacuation afterwards to bad policy arguing that somehow we should have let everyone to stay in the area be irradiated. The estimates also suffer from minimization from bad human intuition - as there will be years of future deaths from Chernobyl and Fukushima but because they are both difficult to peg and small at any single point in time they get discounted. In general the strategy is very similar in deniability effectiveness to the chemical industry in cancers and other illnesses from exposures from everything like pesticides to PFAs.