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Care to back that claim up?



https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/japan-acknowledges-f...

We all know how enthusiastic governments are to admit fault, there are probably many more.

One I'm familiar with in the US:

"The Sodium Reactor Experiment-SRE was an experimental nuclear reactor that operated at the site from 1957 to 1964 and was the first commercial power plant in the world to experience a core meltdown. There was a decades-long cover-up of the incident by the U.S. Department of Energy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory#...

Many of the workers died in their 40s or earlier, in town most of that generation dead by their 60s of cancer. Appears to still be having an affect: https://www.change.org/p/no-more-kids-with-cancer-clean-up-t...


nickik's claim was that no one has died in the US from civilian nuclear. Your links are for the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a military experimental research facility.

If there have been any deaths from civilian nuclear, I would like that information to consider.


“first commercial power plant…”. You also may have missed the first link about fukushima.




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