Health Effects of Nuclear Power: THE UNACCEPTABLE DANGERS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY: INFINITE IS DEATHS PER TERAWATT-HOUR

Our World in Data has a table(TABLE 1 below) cited by an NDTV interview with Shri Bill Gates which depicts deaths the least for nuclear energy at 0.07 per terawatt-hour.

In my Blogspot article on the Health effects of Nuclear Power(1), I refer to Table 2, see Table 2 below in which I derive a figure of 1.09 cancer deaths per MW-y not considering nuclear waste storage. This estimates therefore to 194.42 cancer deaths per Terawatt-hour, not 0.07!(Table 3) This is the highest for any form of energy shown in the Our World in Data Table(Table 1). Thus the 10000 reactor years of ‘normal’ operation of 1000 MW capacity nuclear reactors results in the random premeditated mass murders-fatal cancers- of some 10.2 million people. Considering the waste storage requirements(2) but neglecting destructive effects possible on these steel containers by World Dam Dynamics during a million years, the real energy delivered to society outside the nuclear industry works out to be zero. Thus deaths incurred per Terawatt-hour delivered is infinite.

Now let us consider a three decade nuclear energy programme to set up a nuclear capacity of 24000 MW from 1998 to 2028. See Table 4(TABLE 1: Dynamic Energy Analysis of Nuclear Power with 1000 MW nuclear reactors) taken from my work on energy audit of the Indian Nuclear Programme(3). The results of the study are captured in Table 5. Again even after thirty years of the nuclear programme, no energy is delivered to society outside the nuclear industry. Thus from Table 5, 172 million deaths are estimated in 28 years for zero delivered energy outside the nuclear industry. Again the deaths per Terawatt-hour delivered to society outside the nuclear industry in 28 years becomes infinity. Thirty years of hard but useless work.

References.

1. Ramaswami Ashok Kumar.2010. Health Effects of Nuclear Power During Normal Operations.

https://isisunveiledhenp.blogspot.com/2010/07/health-effects-of-nuclear-power-during.html

2. Amory B. Lovins and John H. Price.1975. Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy. Notes to Part One. Note No. 133.

3. Ramaswami Ashok Kumar.2004. ENERGY AUDIT OF THE INDIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAMME. Table 1. https://energyauditnuclearprogrammeindia.blogspot.com/2006/08/dynamic-energy-analysis-of-indian.html

TABLES

Table 1 Unacceptable Claim by Our World in Data quoted in NDTV Interview on 16 Feb 2021, regarding dangers of Nuclear Energy.