I’m confused what you mean by “that’s only for Chernobyl”. In any case, from your own reference: “Among the residents of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, there had been up to the year 2005 more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer reported in children and adolescents who were exposed at the time of the accident, and more cases can be expected during the next decades. Notwithstanding the influence of enhanced screening regimes, many of those cancers were most likely caused by radiation exposures shortly after the accident. Apart from this increase, there is no evidence of a major public health impact attributable to radiation exposure two decades after the accident. There is no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality rates or in rates of non-malignant disorders that could be related to radiation exposure.”
We do know how many deaths will be directly related to nuclear plants insofar as their operation up until now, and gilch stated how many that is.
“That’s only for Chernobyl” means that the UNSCEAR report was related only to the Chernobyl accidents, but there has been more nuclear accidents for which we haven’t had the time yet to discover their long-term impact. Anyway, I stood corrected that the total mortality was “under than a million”, given the appromixation of the data we have, it’s likely they will stay (barring no more accidents) in the range of 10k ~ 20k.
I’m confused what you mean by “that’s only for Chernobyl”. In any case, from your own reference: “Among the residents of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, there had been up to the year 2005 more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer reported in children and adolescents who were exposed at the time of the accident, and more cases can be expected during the next decades. Notwithstanding the influence of enhanced screening regimes, many of those cancers were most likely caused by radiation exposures shortly after the accident. Apart from this increase, there is no evidence of a major public health impact attributable to radiation exposure two decades after the accident. There is no scientific evidence of increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality rates or in rates of non-malignant disorders that could be related to radiation exposure.”
We do know how many deaths will be directly related to nuclear plants insofar as their operation up until now, and gilch stated how many that is.
“That’s only for Chernobyl” means that the UNSCEAR report was related only to the Chernobyl accidents, but there has been more nuclear accidents for which we haven’t had the time yet to discover their long-term impact.
Anyway, I stood corrected that the total mortality was “under than a million”, given the appromixation of the data we have, it’s likely they will stay (barring no more accidents) in the range of 10k ~ 20k.