with all it's crododile tears over the pop imagination of Cold War workers, couldn't care less about coal workers who died this year from their pro-coal efforts:
http://www.ohsonline.com/articles/50304/Recent data released by NIOSH indicating that the prevalence of coal workers pneumoconiosis, also called black lung disease, has doubled nationwide over the past five years signifies a "shocking and disturbing trend that must be investigated and must be reversed," United Mine Workers of America International President Cecil E. Roberts said yesterday.
"Black lung is a preventable disease that was supposed to be on the way out after the passage of the 1969 Mine Safety and Health Act," Roberts said. "That Act contained a respirable dust standard that all the experts said would be low enough to prevent miners from getting this horrible disease. But now what we're seeing is a trend upward in the prevalence of the disease among miners who began working in the industry after that Act was passed.
The fundie anti-nuke faith depends wholly on the immoral conceit that only nuclear power must be perfect.
There is NOT ONE anti-nuke who can compare the numbers in a paper on external costs. This is why the anti-nuke cult agitated for the use of dangerous fossil fuels in Germany.
www.externE.info
Since the anti-nuke cult cannot compare numbers, it is perfectly content and, in fact, anxious to replace nuclear capacity with coal.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKL2582663020071025Nuclear energy does not to be perfect to be better than everything else. It merely needs to be better than everything else, which it is.
But in the anti-nuke religion - which doesn't care who or how many people it kills -
only nuclear energy needs to be perfect.