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Re: 'Nuclear power isn't really so scary when you understand it,' . Understandably, the job of these Canadian Nuclear Society writers is to advance and promote all things nuclear. Not any specific innovation, but rather a wider don't-worry-be-happy psychological acceptance of nuclear technology and radiation in general. They are clever at it, too—by employing sly semantics, misdirection, straw-man arguments, and other PR tricks and tactics.
The Canadian Cancer Society informs us that routine radiation from our sun causes 1,200 malignant cutaneous melanoma deaths every year in this country, and 9,000 diagnoses of melanoma annually. It also induces basal cell carcinomas, squamous cell carcinomas, cortical cataracts, and pterygiums. Health Canada reports that exposure to radioactive radon-222, a decay product of natural terrestrial uranium, causes 3,300 lung cancer deaths in Canada per year.
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