Fear of Japan’s nuclear crisis far exceeds actual risks, say scientists - CSMonitor.com
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2011/0317/Fear-of-Japan-s-nuclear-crisis-far-exceeds-actual-risks-say-scientists
Le Christian Science Monitor, d’habitude mieux inspiré, se lance dans un article visant à relativiser la peur du #nucléaire ; avec des arguments du genre « c’est moins grave que Tchernobyl » ; « et même #Tchernobyl, finalement, c’était pas si grave que ça »
Consider other industrial disasters, such as the 1984 leak of methyl isocyanate at a Union Carbide plan in #Bhopal, India that killed some 20,000 people. It is one of many #industrial disasters known by doctors to have directly killed thousands of people.
“Chernobyl was bad,” says Bushberg. “[But] in the general category of industrial disasters… no, it wasn’t so bad. Certainly one could quickly find industrial accidents that have resulted in much more serious affects than Chernobyl.”
Conclusion :
When it comes to nuclear power, says Bushberg of the University of California, “there is a lot of misinformation.”
sans déconner…