Deaths per unit of energy for various sources

Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources by holri on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @01:49PM (#2333035)

There are studies from the russian science acadamy that there are 270.000 cancers caused by Tschnernobyl and 93.000 are expected to end deathly.

http://www.n-tv.de/panorama/93-000-statt-4-000-Tote-article1...

It also doesn't include the destruction of a huge territory for thousand of years and the thousand's personal dramas caused by that. Counting only direct deaths is wrong. One has to take the whole risk into account not only one.

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Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources by sorbus on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @05:37PM (#2334058)

All of those points apply to coal as well. Increased risk of cancer, asthma, all sorts of health difficulties. Strip-mining literally destroys land, not just makes it uninhabitable (which is what you meant, not "destruction of a huge territory").

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