If the article's bias isn't clear enough from the title, this should: > Before we delve into the article itself, note that the author of the [pro-nuclear] arti

If the article's bias isn't clear enough from the title, this should: > Before we delve into the article itself, note that the author of the [pro-nuclear] article, Michael Shellenberger, has a degree in cultural anthropology, not nuclear science or nuclear engineering, environmental science, or any other educational background related to the energy production methods and their impact on the environment, human lives, or the global economy. And then, > First, this puff piece for Forbes Magazine tries to discredit the assessment of noted pediatrician and children’s advocate Dr. Helen Caldicott, who projected close to 1 million people died due to the Chernobyl meltdown. So who is this Dr. Helen Caldicott? From Wikipedia: > Helen Mary Caldicott (born 7 August 1938) is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, and military action in general. So they decry an anthropologist writing a pro-nuclear column (fair enough) ... by quoting a physician (umm really?). By the way, even if we accept their "one million deaths from Chernobyl" at face value, let's put that in some context: > A 2013 study by MIT indicates that 53,000 early deaths occur per year in the United States alone because of vehicle emissions. [1] So, during the 33 years since Chernobyl, vehicular emissions caused somewhere around 53k * 33 = 1.7 million deaths in the US only. Nuclear killed, let's be generous, up to a million. Coal kills that much every year. Well, maybe nuclear is too expensive. I'm OK with that argument. But I don't buy that nuclear is too dangerous, when its worst disasters kill less than regular, non-accidental use of fossil fuels on the same year. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaust_gas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaust_gas