With nuclear power, it was more than
just nuclear accidents that featured on the «risky» side of the equation.
Not exact matches
We
just passed the one year anniversary of Japan's devastating earthquake, tsunami and resulting
nuclear accident.
People claiming that it's not is
just fear about
nuclear accidents.......
Enforcing fire and earthquake regulations, addressing flood risks, and safer storage for
nuclear waste are
just a few of the ways we can help prevent
nuclear accidents.
The outlier is
nuclear energy, with
just 0.048 deaths / GWey due to
accidents — although it should be remembered that the hazards associated with
nuclear energy are much greater in the event that something goes wrong, with «latent mortality» difficult to quantify.»
And
just as the atomic bomb indiscriminately killed tens of thousands of civilians, this
nuclear reactor
accident, albeit on a smaller scale, will be responsible for indiscriminate suffering and lives cut short; the consequences are likely to play out over the next several decades due to radiation pollution and the resulting economic costs.»
As to the effects of
nuclear accidents in general, consider that Chernobyl was a «worse than worst case»
accident, yet the Earth kept on ticking
just fine: no temperature increase, no Arctic ice melt, no ocean acidification... Indeed, it seems that for most creatures life in the so - called «dead zone» is a distinct improvement on previous condidtions.