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How many people have been killed or made seriously ill in the uranium/pitchblende mining industries around the world?
Fortunately the first railway fatality was a politician (William Huskisson),
The unitiated (ie. Me) reading this thread could be forgiven for believing that radiation is such a small risk that it is not worth worrying about.
Problem with thorium is that nobody has produced a commercially viable reactor
Obviously. Around 50% of French electricity is nuclear-generated and has been for ages. It is profitable.
I think that we are not ready for this. And anyway, we can not be ready for this anyway. It should be prevented that this would never happen in the future and will do everything possible to protect our future generation from the tragedy.
My hypothesis is that, as the background radiation there is mostly alpha, it may be comparable with the UK childhood leukemia clusters reported in the 1980s which were uniquely associated with those sites handling bare plutonium
Quote from: alancalverd on 10/08/2017 16:19:57My hypothesis is that, as the background radiation there is mostly alpha, it may be comparable with the UK childhood leukemia clusters reported in the 1980s which were uniquely associated with those sites handling bare plutonium Spoiler alert; they weren't.