Shutting down nuclear plants in the US could cause thousands of deaths every year

TL;DR

Well, if many of those 92 nuclear plants are shut down, the energy will have to come from somewhere. Of course, that in itself may not come as a surprise but what is impressive is that the researchers have come up with an estimated number of people that will die prematurely as a result of this increased pollution. According to MIT, when the researchers looked at the populations that will be affected by the increased pollution, they found that black or African American communities will be more exposed

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