• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Yeah it’s also people using those incidents for fear mongering. Especially when coal and oil have killed way more people than every nuclear incident combined, including nuclear weapons.

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I’ve heard people say shit like “after Chernobyl, two fishermen were instantly vaporized and only boots left on the bank!” Like, no, that never happened since it wasn’t an atomic bomb.

      • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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        7 months ago

        The closest to that were the people on the bridge who were looking at the radiation that died a couple of days after.

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      7 months ago

      The psychological impact of a meltdown versus slow poisoning is important. Similar to how fire bombings were more deadly and destructive than the nuclear bombs were, but the nukes have a bigger impact on us mentally