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RE: deaths from various methods of generating electricity
add the 121 workers that were killed during construction of the Snowy
Mountains hydroelectric scheme in Australia.
Leif Dahlskog
Radiation Health Section
Department of Health, Western Australia
ph (+61 8) 9346 2260
fax(+61 8) 9381 1423
-----Original Message-----
From: John Cameron [mailto:jrcamero@facstaff.wisc.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, 20 March 2002 4:52 AM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Cc: Gary Isenhower
Subject: Re: deaths from various methods of generating electricity
Gary Isenhower wrote:
".... A better question perhaps is whether such activities are
as safe as comparable activities like hydroelectric generation. I don't
have exact numbers, but I believe that deaths due to hydroelectric power
generation are far in excess of deaths due to accidental criticalities.
The construction of Hoover dam alone killed several tens of workers."
Dear Colleagues:
The following list is from the book The Good News about Radiation by John
Lenihan published in 1993 by Medical Physics Publishing (out of print) Its
sales did not warrant reprinting. It is an excellent book for the public. It
would be nice to have some group subsidize the reprinting. My wife and I
subsidized the first printing. I am considering scanning the book and
making it part of the Virtual Radiation Museum (VRM) on the web. Adding the
9 criticality deaths from before 1965 wouldn't change the general results
much.
>From p. 103 of TGNAR by Lenihan
DEATHS BETWEEN 1969 AND 1986 RESULTING FROM SEVERE ACCIDENTS TO GENERATE
ELECTRIC POWER
Energy Source no. of severe accidents number of deaths*
coal mining 62 3600
oil (refinery fires, transportation) 57 2070
natural gas (fire, explosion) 24 1440
hydroelectric (dam failures) 8 3839
nuclear 1 31
* immediate deaths only
Best wishes, John
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