How many people died at Chernobyl anyway? Lefty websites put the "more credible estimates of the eventual death toll from this one accident" at between 450,000 to three million.
It will come as no suprise to Freepers that the actual figures are that the fallout from Number Four reactor at Chernobyl killed 31 people almost immediately. Within the next few years, the Soviet government admitted the deaths of 224 others. Every estimate after that is based upon the shifting sands and shiftier logic of UN statistics.
"How many people died at Chernobyl anyway? Lefty websites put the "more credible estimates of the eventual death toll from this one accident" at between 450,000 to three million."
I don't think anyone feels a Chernobyl type release is desirable. The good news is that with modern US reactor technology, there is no chance of something like that happening.
I advocate pebble bed technology, with a few fast breeder reactors to reprocess waste into plutonium. The high-level waste that's no longer processable should be packaged appropriately and dumped along the mid-Pacific subduction zone. The anti-nuke movement is pure anti-technology, anti-progress Luddite fuzzy thinking.