Re: another 15,000

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

>"Go Nuclear - It only kills half as many people as coal!"
I don't get it (should I? Isn't 1 still <2 ?) - why should I want to choose 
something that kills more people than something else? There is no risk free 
world. Besides, I think that coal is worse than that. We read for instance 
recently that coal kills almost one person per day in Ukraine alone 
(statistics for the last decade say 3000 people).

>"A nuclear power accident is less likely than a dam failure."
If I recall correctly, the worst accident (deaths/Twh) in Europe over the 
last 30-40 years or so was a hydropower dam failure in Italy around 1975 
(about 15000 people died). Please correct me if there is anything wrong 
here. Is this uninteresting?

My ideas and reflections only,

Bjorn Cedervall  bcradsafers@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/bjorn_cedervall/

________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

************************************************************************
The RADSAFE Frequently Asked Questions list, archives and subscription
information can be accessed at http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~rad/radsafe.html