Re: Fukushima Cesium-137 is 85 times greater than at Cherno
What a bunch of idiots at MIT!How many premature deaths resulted from the disasters at Chernobyl or Fukushima? MIT doesn't know, so what do we have to give meaning to 5,000 premature deaths due to increased air pollution if all U.S. nuclear power plants are retired? If they aren't all retired, how many premature deaths will result? If only one U.S. nuclear power plant produces the next Chernobyl or Fukushima, premature deaths may be more than 100 times that paltry 5,000 figure. Or are we supposed to believe U.S. nuclear power plants never have radioactive leaks? How many premature deaths have the "controlled releases" of radioactivity from U.S. nuclear power plants already caused? Once again, MIT isn't saying. They just give us one side of the story so that we will think retiring U.S. nuclear power plants is not only a bad idea, but a deadly one. Well, I strongly suspect not retiring them produces the greater number of premature deaths, if one can judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, both of which are likely causing premature deaths every day that we are not able to identify and count.