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Are you saying more people have died from falling while installing/servicing solar than have died due to Chernobyl and Fukushima?
by jcbrand 5y ago
Are you saying more people have died from falling while installing/servicing solar than have died due to Chernobyl and Fukushima?
- samatman 5y agoPer GW of delivered power. Yes, that's correct.
- Thlom 5y agoThere were 1 person that died in Fukushima. Some more, mostly elderly people, died during evacuation/displacement. In Chernobyl around 50 people died as direct consequence of the disaster. As far as I know there's no studies showing increased risk of cancer in the population that lived in and around Chernobyl at the time. If Chernobyl showed us one thing it is that radiation is not as dangerous as we believed.
- vidarh 5y agoThere were sharp increases in some cancers, however from very small bases and of cancers with very low mortality, as far as I recall. I think it's worth assuming some reduction in life expectancy for some people, but notably the estimates of lost years of life have dropped year by year, and will likely end up being negligible. I've said it before: we could have a Chernobyl every year, and it'd still be worth it (reducing deaths) if it got us off coal sooner...
- thow-58d4e8b 5y agoAs far as I recall, there were some measurable increases in cancer incidence among children in Belarus, mostly due to milk intake However, all that was completely drowned by a collapse of life expectancy resulting from the chaos of the 90s. We're horrified at a few tens of extra cancers, but 100M men losing 10-15 years of their life due to socio-economic circumstances doesn't raise anyone's eyebrow
- db65edfc7996 5y agoLong term Chernobyl numbers[0] are highly contested. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...