200 deaths per year due to coal-fired power? Way off. It’s more like 10,000 - 50,000 in the US alone.
RussP, it has been decades since I read that estimate published by our EPA. To what are the additional deaths attributed? I'm being lazy, and have not scoured the EPA site for many years.
It is hard not to become entangled with minutia when the important fact, no radiation affects, are so dominant, and the total absence of emissions is so critical to human health, as the Bejing Olympics so dramatically showed the world. Long distance athletes knew, but most didn't connect the air pollution with coal burning. China's rulers know, most of them having come from the scientific community, and are doing what our captive mandarins are not, protecting the future, the health, both economic and physical, of their citizens.
the 200 deaths isn’t my number