alt.energy.renewable

"T. Keating" wrote

> Nuclear power has sent over a million plus humans to early deaths.

Gibberish, like most of the rest of the post. Even if true, the UN
estimates that emissions from fossil fuels and biomass energy kill
around 2.5 million people per year. That number would be even higher but
for nuclear energy, which would still be saving lives even with your
made up 'million plus' figure.

First world, Former Soviet and Third World countries with nuclear power
plants don't have shorter life expectancies than their counterparts. In
fact
the opposite tends to be true. Japan has around 50 nuclear reactors and
has
a very high life expectancy. France gets around 75% of its electricity
from
nuclear and has a very high life expectancy. Scandinavia uses nuclear
energy, boarders countries with nuclear energy, and was in the path of
Chernobyl radiation... and has high life expectancies.

The report "Cancer in Populations Living Near Nuclear Facilities" (Us
Dept of Health and Human Services. NIH Publication No. 90-874) Shows no
increased age adjusted cancer rates in counties with nuclear facilities
versus control counties. (This is hospital stats, not data from nuclear
utilities.)

Karl Johanson