Several correspondents have taken me to task for saying that nuclear power has only killed two people over the past 20 years, compared with 150,000 each year from coal power. All of them mentioned Chernobyl and of the predictions of death to happen sometime from it. I do not dispute that Chernobyl was the worst possible accident, indeed worse than could even conceivably happen here since it had no containment building.
Several correspondents have taken me to task for saying that nuclear power has only killed two people over the past 20 years, compared with 150,000 each year from coal power. All of them mentioned Chernobyl and of the predictions of death to happen sometime from it.
