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NNadir

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3. How about "leaks" from smokestacks that actually kill people?
Sun Nov 3, 2013, 10:19 AM
Nov 2013

Air pollution kills about 4 million people per year, according to a paper in the scientific journal Lancet.

http://theenergycollective.com/nnadir/267356/world-health-organization-underestimating-annual-deaths-renewable-energy-much-two-mill

Do you have any level of concern for these people?

No?

Nuclear power doesn't even appear on the list in the Lancet paper as a significant contributor to loss of life.

Nuclear power is a mature technology that's been operating for 60 years and has the lowest external costs and the lowest loss of life per MWh for any form of energy known.

Other than being the best form of energy ever invented - invented by some of the finest minds ever to live on the planet - it's been a disaster.

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