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In reply to the discussion: Russia Unveils Detailed Plans To Build 21 New Nuclear Power Units By 2030 [View all]PamW
(1,825 posts)82. What people are dying due to nuclear waste?
What people are dying because of nuclear waste?
Do you think that people die from the normal operation of a nuclear power plant?
Even nuclear power plant accidents; fewer people die than airliner crashes.
Nobody died because of Three Mile Island.
Nobody will die due to Fukushima; in spite of all the hype; the radiation levels aren't that high.
Chernobyl is a different story. There were about 30 people killed in the early days of the Chernobyl accident.
There may be about 4000 that get some type of cancer; mostly curable types.
But nuclear power has a better safety record in terms of injuries and deaths, than the commercial airline industry.
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Russia Unveils Detailed Plans To Build 21 New Nuclear Power Units By 2030 [View all]
FBaggins
Nov 2013
OP
Do they have any detailed plans about how they are going to dismantle them in 20 -50 years?
intaglio
Nov 2013
#2
So you are saying that long lived radio-isotopes are not present in nuclear waste.
intaglio
Nov 2013
#16
Nope... I'm not saying that. Nor most of the rest of your imagined statements.
FBaggins
Nov 2013
#20
And how does the fluid in the primary cooling circuit move through that circuit?
intaglio
Nov 2013
#62