Re:Why the Clean Tech Boom Went Bust
by Turing_Machine on Sunday January 22, 2012 @08:14PM
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I would chalk those up as industrial accidents of the type that can occur anywhere, rather than nuclear accidents per se. Other energy technologies kill people directly. Natural gas explodes. Dams break. Coal mines cave in, catch on fire, and kill miners with toxic gases.
This is an overstatement. A crane at Fukushima fell down killing a few people, and a couple of workers died of heatstroke (due in part to radiation suits).
As for Chernobyl, you forgot to mention that in addition to design flaws, they were performing a scientific experiment well outside the safety parameters at the time of the disaster.