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> So .. how many actual body bags definitive linked then? Several hundred, most of them in the days and months immediately following the incident. The remaind

> So .. how many actual body bags definitive linked then? Several hundred, most of them in the days and months immediately following the incident. The remainder are based on the UNSCEAR estimates over the fullness of time including people who commited suicide because they fear they're somehow contaminated. The majority of the deaths are derived the statistical projections of death. They estimate the impact of the fallout using the linear no threshold dose-response model (itself, contested for being too conservative). Suffice it to say Greenpeace is out to lunch with their projections.

defrost 3y ago
> Several hundred. Okay, for Part Two .. is that a high number or a low number when compared to a dam burst or a Bhopal type chemical plant accident? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster Point being, are we globally casual about all manner of destructive events and relatively over sensitive to OMG! nuclear!! accidents?
- mech422 3y ago
  Wow..Thats a name I haven't seen in ages! I remember when that happened..Horrible and last time I looked (10-15 years ago??) the wells were still contaminated, and people still had to drink the water :-/
- arcticbull 3y ago
  Sorry, I'm not the person you were replying to, I suspected they wouldn't so I wanted to share the research I did earlier on. I agree with you, and to me these numbers seem rather low relative to the known harms associated with other generation methods. To steelman, it could certainly have been a lot worse, but also, it wasn't, and much was learned that has been incorporated into modern designs.
  - defrost 3y ago
    My apologies if I seemed combative :) I noted at the time that you were another commenter and that you seemed in general agreement, I added further framing to point out that while a large number and that all death is tragic it's not been the case that nuclear power accidents have been worse than other industrial | power accidents in world history.
    - arcticbull 3y ago
      Not at all, I would have replied the same way to OP, heh. I agree with you. All death is bad, less death is better, and the scale of nuclear accidents doesn't seem out of line with other industrial accidents. People get spooked by the spicy rocks.

defrost 3y ago

> Several hundred. Okay, for Part Two .. is that a high number or a low number when compared to a dam burst or a Bhopal type chemical plant accident? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster Point being, are we globally casual about all manner of destructive events and relatively over sensitive to OMG! nuclear!! accidents?

mech422 3y ago
Wow..Thats a name I haven't seen in ages! I remember when that happened..Horrible and last time I looked (10-15 years ago??) the wells were still contaminated, and people still had to drink the water :-/
arcticbull 3y ago
Sorry, I'm not the person you were replying to, I suspected they wouldn't so I wanted to share the research I did earlier on. I agree with you, and to me these numbers seem rather low relative to the known harms associated with other generation methods. To steelman, it could certainly have been a lot worse, but also, it wasn't, and much was learned that has been incorporated into modern designs.
- defrost 3y ago
  My apologies if I seemed combative :) I noted at the time that you were another commenter and that you seemed in general agreement, I added further framing to point out that while a large number and that all death is tragic it's not been the case that nuclear power accidents have been worse than other industrial | power accidents in world history.
  - arcticbull 3y ago
    Not at all, I would have replied the same way to OP, heh. I agree with you. All death is bad, less death is better, and the scale of nuclear accidents doesn't seem out of line with other industrial accidents. People get spooked by the spicy rocks.