Reply #62: Chemical/industrial pollution is responsible for far more deaths anually... [View All]

[TheMadMonk]

...than the entire nuclear test program over it's entire life time.

Respiratory disease, just from coal alone, alone kills about as many people every single year as the anti-nuke crowd claims for Chernobyl over the next 50 odd years.

In normal everyday operation a coal fired power plant's, radiological emissions in the ash and smoke stack exhaust is roughly equivalent to an ongoing 24/7/365 catagory 3 or 4 nuclear incident and the oldest and dirtiest plants might well approach level 5, every single day of their operational life.