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Death rate from nuclear power

The death rate cited for nuclear power, 0.07 per TWh, is based upon speculation.

According to the United Nations Scientific Committee for the Effects of Atomic Radiation, the confirmed total number of deaths is 28, all caused by the inherently unsafe and incompetently operated Chernobyl power plant. After writing "there is no scientific means to determine whether a particular cancer in a particular individual was or was not caused by radiation," the second report speculated that during the fifteen years following the 1986 accident, out of 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer in the region, there were fifteen more fatal juvenile cases than would have been statistically expected. Even allowing those to be counted, the total is 43. Others speculate about thousands of cancer deaths within several ensuing decades, but these are based upon fraudulent "research" sponsored by oil interests, primarily the Rockefeller Foundation, to promote the "linear no threshold" theory of the relationship of radiation exposure to the risk of cancer. Actual data show there is in fact a threshold, and in fact that radiation doses below the threshold reduce the risk of cancer. This same phenomenon holds for essentially every toxic substance. It's called the "hormesis" effect. Look for work by Edward Calabrese. Tim Maloney and Mike Conley will shortly be publishing a book on the subject.

Outside the Soviet Union, and this includes the Three Mile Island and Fukushima accidents, there have been no confirmed deaths related to nuclear power -- only speculation based on the linear no threshold theory. In short, nuclear power in the entire civilized world is actually safer than Teddy Kennedy's car.

The Chernobyl accident is now irrelevant because nothing like it will ever be built again, and all the other nuclear power stations in the entire world have a perfect safety record. Trying to use Chernobyl to denigrate nuclear power is like using the Hindenburg crash to prove that a Boeing 777 or Airbus 340 is unsafe. Van.snyder (talk) 22:34, 15 July 2023 (UTC)