This wasn't "the nuke industry". It was a government testing lab. No member of the public has been harmed by actual commercial nuclear power plants. All of the dicey stuff (and there was a lot more of it than just this) was done by the government.
> There is never any expectation that any nuke project will do better, absent strict regulation and rigorous enforcement
So you want the government that set this testing lab up to do the regulation and enforcement?
Have you read the article you post? Virtually no-one was able to find a statistically relevant affect on health in then neighbouring population.
The American Nuclear Society concluded that average local radiation exposure was equivalent to a chest X-ray and maximum local exposure equivalent to less than a year's background radiation.
the study found no link between fallout and cancer risk
"no consistent evidence" of causation by TMI
found rates as expected in the county in which the reactor is located
Anyway the American Nuclear Society was not "able".
No one seemed interested in the experience of people living near the river, gassed by the volume of radioactive krypton gas "vented" that (being much denser than air) poured down and spread out over the river banks.
Government contractors do what the government wants and ignore what they don’t.
The people who designed nuclear strategy believed that nuclear warfare and devastation was inevitable. It was a convenient way to brush off these types of concern.
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> the nuke industry
This wasn't "the nuke industry". It was a government testing lab. No member of the public has been harmed by actual commercial nuclear power plants. All of the dicey stuff (and there was a lot more of it than just this) was done by the government.
> There is never any expectation that any nuke project will do better, absent strict regulation and rigorous enforcement
So you want the government that set this testing lab up to do the regulation and enforcement?
Debatable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident_h...
Have you read the article you post? Virtually no-one was able to find a statistically relevant affect on health in then neighbouring population.
Anyway the American Nuclear Society was not "able".
No one seemed interested in the experience of people living near the river, gassed by the volume of radioactive krypton gas "vented" that (being much denser than air) poured down and spread out over the river banks.
I've read it. Do you want me to selectively quote some sentences that support the opposing view? This is why I said it's debatable, not conclusive.
It was a government-funded private lab.
Government contractors do what the government wants and ignore what they don’t.
The people who designed nuclear strategy believed that nuclear warfare and devastation was inevitable. It was a convenient way to brush off these types of concern.