Nuclear Disasters Impacts
Discussions debate the severity, radiation effects, exclusion zones, casualties, and long-term habitability from Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents, often comparing them to other scenarios or defending nuclear safety.
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Chernobyl exploded and caught on fire and burned, leading radioactive smoke to spread hundreds of miles. Isn’t this similar to the scenario you propose? We’ve already seen what happens (42 immediate casualties, 1000s of cancer cases). But Europe is still a livable continent, it didn’t turn into the scene of a Fallout video game or whatever.In comparison, the 2011 Tsunami in Japan killed 15,000, yet people are still allowed to live near the ocean...
So, you haven't heard about Chernobyl nor Fukushima?!? Maybe stop reading hackernews and go to CNN and Wikipedia pal!
Analysis of the Chernobyl accident suggests that this is not quite truehttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1...
Wasn't it rather events like in Chernobyl and Fukushima?
the exclusion zone of fukushima hasn't changed since the beginning even after 10+ years. same for pripyat and chernobyl, those already close to 40 years. UK had to test sheep for radioactivity in certain domestic areas up until 2012.nuclear damages aren't just dead humans. they come in the forms of lost lands and untrustable food source.
I agree. Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accide... linked in another thread.
There is a "not yet" with Fukushima.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disas...As usual with long-term exposure, cause of death becomes a statistical and actuarial question.Incidentally, Chernobyl almost sterilised large areas of Europe and Russia. One of the official documentaries explains what would have happened
Are you kidding? Even if you completely ignore the radiation, the amount of disruption caused by the disaster caused a huge amount of pain, suffering and death.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disas...
Reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accide...
It starts to sicken me to see all these nuclear energy supporters telling us how safe and limited the effect this accident has. I just don’t see it this way. The situation is getting worse and the long term effects are not all that clear for the region and Japan overall.It just amazes me to see TV shows showing us the Tschernobyl aftermath with this deep impact to the people and region. Some reports state that 4000 were killed while others state 200’000. Hard to extrapolate what the real fact