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> Nuclear accidents will kill you, as in -- dead. They have been markedly less successful at that than other industrial accidents. edit: Wikipedia suggests a
by sesqu 13y ago
> Nuclear accidents will kill you, as in -- dead.
They have been markedly less successful at that than other industrial accidents.
edit: Wikipedia suggests a total of about 9250 accidental deaths worldwide over the past 56 years related to nuclear research, power, weapons and therapy, of which some 126 died of radiation while the rest died from explosions and cancer (estimates vary; except for the 9000 deaths attributed to Chernobyl, the numbers likely discount some terminal cancers).
- mtdewcmu 13y agoThis probably has a lot to do with the high level of vigilance that nuclear power receives, notwithstanding the occasional failure.