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> Coal power is responsible for 800,000 deaths per year Umm... source? Clean Air Task Force puts U.S. deaths at 13K/year.[1] Obviously the concern with nuclea
by abalone 10y ago
> Coal power is responsible for 800,000 deaths per year
Umm... source? Clean Air Task Force puts U.S. deaths at 13K/year.[1]
Obviously the concern with nuclear is not that it needs to achieve "zero deaths". That is a straw man argument. It's Chernobyl, Fukushima, etc. and waste.
[1] http://www.catf.us/fossil/problems/power_plants/ http://www.catf.us/fossil/problems/power_plants/
- stinky613 10y agoI think the 800k figure may be a global number. This 2012 Forbes article has a global average 100,000 deaths _per trillion kWhr_[1]. I have no clue if the the world uses 8 trillion kWhr of coal power in a year though. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/#6fbcce81709b https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...