Re: Power Plant Pollution Linked to 30,000 Premature Deaths Each Year

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, ruth_weiner wrote:

> I don't know where the 23 comes from, but here is a citable source and some
> numbers:
> 
> Collective dose to the public from incident-free transportation of ALL
> shipments by mostly truck to Yucca Mountain, over a 24 year period
> 
> 35000 person-rem, which using the LNT theory estimates 17 "latent cancer
> fatalities" (LCF).
> 
> For mostly rail transportation (fewer shipments) this reduces to about 2
> LCFs.

	This is less than one death per year. Other numbers the "23
deaths" were compared with were "per year" so this should also be.

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