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You are delusional.

Coal plants kill millions of people worldwide every year.

How many people died from Chernobyl? About 50, despite over 100,000 people working at the site on cleanup. The adjacent reactors continued to run and provide power for about a decade after the incident.

How many people died of radiation poisoning at Fukushima? Zero.

Zero!

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> How many people died from Chernobyl? About 50, despite over 100,000 people working at the site on cleanup. The adjacent reactors continued to run and provide power for about a decade after the incident.

I am surprised you're quoting official Soviet numbers. Numbers that weren't updated since the early days of the accident.

> How many people died of radiation poisoning at Fukushima? Zero.

At what cost?

Besides the spike in thyroid cancers, from the Baltics to Poland, Romania and Ukraine on down.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/04/1008292

This is 4000 deaths spread statistically over I do not remember how many tens of years.

Check for yourself: https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub913e_web.p...

Your logic: no one died today, ergo it must be safe.

You should consider changing your position. It’s not too late for that.

Happy New Year.

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