3 ms·

Hi, I'm inclined to believe you, but can you quote some numbers to back your assertion?

• arm85 11y ago
  I don't know where he got his reference from, but, renewable energy without the hot air, has something similar, it calculates the number of deaths per GWy, for different sources[0]. Coal is certainly near the top (second to oil)[0]. Although I believe it was published after fukushima, and people might be suffering illness not accounted for in the book, I imagine that fukushima won't have dented the stats very much. [0] http://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_168.shtml http://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_168.shtml
• overdrivetg 11y ago
  Here's a simple chart, with what look like credible sources: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-de...
• Symmetry 11y ago
  Sorry, should have included a link with that. http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2013/12/fukushima-vs-coal.html http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2013/12/fukushima-vs...
  • tobltobs 11y ago
    "So it was a disaster that killed roughly 180 people." Just if somebody don't want to read all the glorification of nuclear power of this guy but want to know which numbers he used for his theory. "Over it's lifetime Fukushima generated 877,692 Gigawatt-Hours of electricity .." Subtracting the energy required to build, maintain, dismantle a nuclear reactor and store the waste for the next few thousand years would be nitpicking.
  • Symmetry 11y ago
    Since I wrote that the estimate of the number of deaths caused by the evacuation itself has gone way up and so the overall Fukushima disaster killed something like 5 times as many people as a coal power plant's normal operation.