On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Anthony Jackson <xxxxxx@iii.com> wrote:

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> This is comparable to *2 months* of casualties from coal power, and is the worst accident in decades. It really is bad risk assessment.

Agreed, aside from “oh yeah we cannot inhabit this large chunk of Japan for a thousand years or so”

Immediate casualties aren’t the only costs from a nuclear accident. <http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/chernobyl-ghost-cities>

Of course, continuing to use coal is going to kill a hella lot more people, but we have huge chunks of the population in absolute denial of that.

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