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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.

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.

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