The World Health Organization estimates that as many as 65,161 people a year worldwide die from too much sun, mostly from malignant skin cancer. Compare this to the deaths directly attributed to the nuclear reactor accident which was caused by the way, by an earth quake followed by a tsunmai!
(Most of the radiation is coming from the spent fuel rods then the reactor core! Can you say Yucca?)
However, if you search for "Japanese earth quake deaths" there are according to Fox News.. "The number of deaths from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan rose Tuesday to 9,079, while another 12,645 are still missing."
Granted, radiation is not necessarily a good thing for individual humans; however, there are still lots of people going to sunny climates in the winter to help up their doses of "solar" radiation
So you should ask yourself, do I feel safer living next to a nuclear reactor or living under the sun in an earth quake zone?
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http://xkcd.com/radiation/
Awesome chart. Check out the difference from living next to a plant to flying from NY to LA.
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