What was so bad aboout Chernobyl? Just for comparison: According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch

What was so bad aboout Chernobyl? Just for comparison: According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster): "It is estimated that there may ultimately be a total of 4,000 deaths attributable to the accident, due to increased cancer risk." According to http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-energy-sources.html http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-ener...: In the USA about 30,000 deaths/year from coal pollution from 2000 TWh. So in the USA each year 7.5 times more people die due to the use of coal energy, than all of the people who died due to Chernobyl. Unfortunately there is a irrational fear of nuclear power in most European states (and also the rest of the world). It seems that most people would prefer climate-damaging coal energy with a higher fatality-rate per year, compared to relatively safe nuclear energy with an extremly low fatality rate per year (even if you count in the accidents that happen every now and then). And let's face it: If Japan would replace nuclear energy with other energy types, then a large percentage of those replacements would be coal (as it impossible to obtain all the required energy from renewable sources with today's technology).