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Or its lifetime Fukushima produced 100 Gigawatt-years of electricity and the disaster is expected to end up killing 180 people assuming a linear no-threshold radiation model. A typical coal plant will kill between 280 and 40 people generating that much electricity.

By contrast, Chernobyl killed somewhere around 20,000 people (also assuming linear no-threshold).

http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2013/12/fukushima-vs...




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