tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post3187660272929103413..comments2023-04-07T05:19:44.951-04:00Comments on Yes Vermont Yankee: 50th Carnival of Nuclear Energy BlogsMeredith Angwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02737538041807740424noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-82873544188598417712011-05-20T17:04:22.980-04:002011-05-20T17:04:22.980-04:00I would compare the Union of Concerned Scientists&...I would compare the Union of Concerned Scientists' estimate of mortality associated with the 1986 Chernobyl accident (9,000 over 50 years or more) to the National Research Council's 2009 findings that US fossil fueled electric power plant mortality is on the order of 18,000 to 20,000 per year, mostly from sulfurous coal particulate fallout. Chernobyl was unique in terms of the scale of release of radionuclides from a reactor design (RBMK) no longer permitted to be built, coal generated toxic SO2 particulates are routine worldwide. A conservative extrapolation of the human health related damage from the electric sectors of China & India and other non-OECD nations would be on the order of 333k (1/3 million) premature deaths from fossil fuel emissions worldwide per annum. Thus coal would be nearly 2000 times more dangerous in terms of human health using UCS's own projections. <br /><br />Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use<br />http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12794<br /><br />Mortality figure ~@3 minute mark on podcast:<br />http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12794#podcastAaron Rizziohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02231373295357154486noreply@blogger.com