Decades of Air Pollution Undermine the Immune System

Re:Decades of Air Pollution Undermine the Immune System by legulere on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @01:29AM (#33715907)

> Especially including the radiation in the emissions from coal burning power plants, which kills more people every year than any nuclear power plant accident.

I once did the maths, Chernobyl was on the order of 100 times Chinas current yearly nuclear emissions caused by coal burning.

Particulate matter and nitrogen oxides are the real issue (and sulphur dioxide where it’s not filtered out yet).

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Re:Decades of Air Pollution Undermine the Immune System by Schroedingersat on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @02:43AM (#33716319)

There's one particular mine/set of generators in china that basically just burns low-grade uranium ore (the ash is more concentrated than Namibian and Nigerian mines). If you exclude that one 100x is about right.

For the rest, yeah.

Also La Hague emits about 1/20th of a chernobyl per year.

CO2/NOx/SOx/particulates from coal are still worse.

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