Cars more dangerous than reactors

Despite the Chernobyl catastrophe 25 years ago and the most recent nuclear disaster in Fukushima the conservative daily Lidové noviny says there's no point in getting hysterical: "The first fears after Chernobyl that hundreds of thousands would die never became reality. No one can claim that the area is idyllic today but nature regenerated quickly. ... Today's reactors are much safer. Yet we still can't be satisfied. We still know too little from serious sources about the accident at Fukushima to draw any conclusions. But there are studies about how many people die from the emissions from coal-fired power plants and how many miners die each year in the mines. These numbers simply lack the spectacular backdrop of a damaged reactor. Road traffic kills many more people each year that nuclear accidents do. Perhaps the anti-nuclear activists would be better off fighting for a ban on cars."

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