> In the meantime, a barebones crew operates Chernobyl infrastructure, while the sacrophagus was shelled by Russian troops.
and even under these conditions, once again, zero deaths
the point you're trying to make actually works against you
and even under these conditions, once again, zero deaths
the point you're trying to make actually works against you
I agree with your point, but for the record there's apparently been one death due to radiation (and possibly more to come): After the fighting was over, the russian soldiers seem to have camped in the Red Forest (absolutely the most contaminated area after the reactor structure itself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Forest ), dug trenches and eaten local animals. And continued doing so for a month.
All the nastier bits are under a layer of "clean" soil and you would have no contact with them ordinarily.
These soldiers actually dug down to the nasty bits and likely breathed some of the dust in.
Between that, and eating wildlife (which acts as a powerful concentrator), I'm not surprised they died. The exposure must have been thousands of times above the already non-insignificant baseline.
Huge strawman. By the same logic one could claim that climate change is not a big deal because the worst hasn't happened yet.