How p-hacking built the world's most expensive safety regime

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People are terrified that small doses of radiation will give them cancer, but they probably don’t need to be.

Issue 24 of Works in Progress has now arrived with subscribers. Sign up here to receive this issue, plus another every two months – straight to your door. Chernobyl was the world’s worst ever nuclear disaster. The reactor was built to a flawed design. In 1986, its operators disabled automated safety systems and removed control rods to perform a late-night test. The coolant water overheated, speeding up the reaction until it flash-boiled into steam and violently shattered all the nuclear fuel in a matter of seconds. The graphite in the reactor then caught fire. Six hundred workers were…

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