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1. Uranium miners have high risk of lung cancer due to radon gas and decay products. https://www.cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca/eng/resources/research/canadian-uranium-worker
by Joel_Mckay 4mo ago
1. Uranium miners have high risk of lung cancer due to radon gas and decay products.
https://www.cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca/eng/resources/research/canadian-uranium-worker-study/ https://www.cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca/eng/resources/research/canadian-...
2. Workers exposed to alpha-emitting materials like plutonium/uranium show increased risk of lung cancer
https://www.ovid.com/jnls/epidem/fulltext/10.1097/ede.0000000000000684~risk-of-lung-cancer-mortality-in-nuclear-workers-from https://www.ovid.com/jnls/epidem/fulltext/10.1097/ede.000000...
3. Plant operators within heavily regulated work areas are usually unaffected, and show an odd statistical wellness anomaly inconsistent with control groups. However, if one includes accidents/events with collateral impact:
https://www.cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca/eng/resources/health/health-effects-chornobyl-accident/ https://www.cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca/eng/resources/health/health-effe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident...
4. Waste management incidents are difficult to quantify over 30000 year time scales. However, the industry has failed to even maintain containment for 30 years at some sites.
https://web.archive.org/web/20141129021716/http://www.katu.com/news/local/Washington-to-sue-over-nuclear-sites-tank-vapors--283276831.html https://web.archive.org/web/20141129021716/http://www.katu.c...
>It would be illuminating to see what you find reasonable.
Cheap distributed sustainable infrastructure more robust against conflicts/regulatory-capture/arms-proliferation, and leave a light footprint for those yet to live here. Good luck, =3