[Gasification] Nukes - OT

[Peter Singfield]

Right on Kevin!!!

We can even do:

How many deaths due to hair drier

How many deaths due to electric cloths drier

Electric stoves

ETC

Peter/Belize

At 01:20 PM 5/1/2007 -0300, Kevin Chisholm wrote:
>Dear Mike and Rob
>
>Presumably, Chernobyl was included in "Russia".
>
>The next question is one of "defining the envelope." If we deal with 
>"Nuclear Power Plants", then deaths from Atom Bombs and Uranium Mining 
>don't count.
>
>If we "enlarge the envelope" to include all deaths from anything 
>associated with Nuclear Power Production, then in fairness, we should 
>include all deaths associated with Coal Power Production. This would not 
>includeActs of War, such as Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Such peripheral 
>deaths would include:
>* Radon poisoning from coal fired power plant stacks.
>* Mercury poisoning from coal fired power plant stacks.
>* Arsenic poisoning from coal fired power plant stacks.
>* Deaths of coal miners producing the coal for coal fired power plants.
>* Railroad and truck deaths hauling the coal for coal fired power plants.
>* etc, etc.
>
>There is a merit to broadening the argument. Perhaps the question posed 
>should be "What technology provides electric power at the least total 
>cost to Society?"
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Kevin