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Originally Posted by AllenK
Feelings are not enough. If you would have asked the workers of Tschernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island you would have found enough of them who would have said the same.
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Right back at you with that. Since this has popped up again, I'll point out - a year or so after the first time - that no one has died from the effects of radiation at Fukushima. The "studies" predicting X number of future deaths all use the unproven (many would say discredited) linear no-threshold model of radiation effects. There were, however, a sizeable number of deaths directly or indirectly attributable to the hurried & arguably unnecessary evacuation. See e.g.
Loss of life after evacuation: lessons learned from the Fukushima accident : The Lancet or
Fukushima Cancer Fears Are Absurd - Forbes
As for the claim that parts of the Ukraine may never be habitable due to Chernobyl, note that the so-called Dead Zone is now a nature reserve, and by many accounts one of the environmentally-healthiest places in Europe.