The Chernobyl disaster, which was terrible for sure, will eventually, over like 70 years, have led to the early mortality of between 4 and 15 thousand people. The “accident” is the poster child for the anti-nuclear. “But what about Chernobyl‽” They scream.
The same people however seem largely unconcerned that German coal-fired generation, which could have been replaced by nuclear by now if they had not pissed away €520 BILLION on Energiewende, has been killing something like 75 thousand people a year, EVERY year, for decades. Instead of fixing that, these same anti-nuclear folks had the country closing nuclear plants and REVERTING to coal.
Closure of the last two German nuclear plants alone, in 2022, was expected to INCREASE the European death toll by about a thousand a year. Meaning that just that one stupid populist political decision, the premature closure, will have killed more people than the world’s worst nuclear disaster some time between next year and 2037.
Meanwhile, pollution from German industry, mostly the energy sector, that could have been largely eliminated by spending that €520 billion on nuclear power, continues to kill between 5–19 times as many people as the world’s worst nuclear accident, EVERY year.
