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nixasstoday at 12:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

Coal probably kills more people in a single day than all nuclear accidents ever combined


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brynnbeetoday at 1:25 PM

It's worse than that, it's every 3 to 7 hours of fossil fuel pollution roughly equaling the total death toll of all nuclear power accidents in history (around 4000 indirectly, most from cancer resulting from Chernobyl - but there's only around 100 total in a direct way).

wolvoleotoday at 1:02 PM

Probably but damage from nuclear accidents isn't only measured in deaths. No coal plant accident has caused an exclusion zone for 40 years.

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