Professor David Wienstein quoted in Forbes
Shutting Down All Of Japan’s Nuclear Plants After Fukushima Was A Bad Idea
By now, more Japanese have died from the closing of Japan's nuclear power plants following the 2011 Tohoku quake than from the tsunami and the earthquake combined, which was about 20,000 people. Of course, no one has died from any radiation released from the reactor, and no one ever will. There just wasn’t enough dose to anyone. . .
. . . “If Japan had decided to keep all [uneffected] nuclear reactors open in 2012 and had met its energy needs by proportionally reducing coal, oil, LNG and other energy sources, I estimate that this policy would have saved 9,493 lives based on the air pollution of that year alone”. . .