If people did zillions of epidemiological studies of coal plants - and they don't - one would find cancers as well.
If we did studies of people who work with silicon, we might find something there.
I don't understand why only nuclear energy gets an "assumption" of cancer. I'll bet that the number of cancers of the lung resulting from air pollution number in the millions each year.
People are studying the effects of silicon, and in the Netherlands working with sandstone (cutting, polishing) is classed as dangerous (or higher?) than removing asbestos.
We should ban sand!! No, wait...
