This comes from the European Scientific Publication: Eur J Public Health JUEL et al. 10 (2): 93.
It's available on line for free:
http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/repri... The title of the article is:
Mortality and life expectancy in Denmark and in other European countries. What is happening to middle-aged Danes?.
Fifteen nations were studied over that period. (One nation included is one that began using so called "deadly nuclear power" almost exclusively in that period to generate its electricity, which is, of course, my point.)
Of the fifteen nations reported, the largest
increase in life expectancy were reported in decending order: Portugal, Spain,
France, Austria, and (then) West Germany. Life expectancy in these nations increase about 5 years over the period. French
men actually increased their life expectancy more than Spanish men, 5 years compared to 4 years resepctively.
The nations the
smallest increases were, from highest increase to lowest: Sweden, Greece, Norway, Netherlands, and, dead last, Denmark. The increase in Danish life expectancy over this roughly 20 year period was just one year.
In this period, the nation with the lowest mortality from
lung cancer was, um
France, with a mortality rate of 20 per 100,000. France was also in the lower tier for breast cancer.
France, despite all of its "deadly" nuclear power plants, according to
the Wikipedia reference, which claims to be based on United Nations statistics, as the tenth best life expectancy in the world, 80.7 years. Japan, the best in the world, has a life expectancy of 82.6 years. Denmark ranks #31, and has a lower life expectancy than the EU overall. Denmark actually beats out the United States, #34, but that's not saying much. In the United States if you have no money, you have no health care.
Apparently the evil, nasty, "deadly scourge" of nuclear power cannot overwhelm the excellent French health care system, and maybe - it actually could be - air pollution is bad for you.
Nevertheless, as we all know, everyone in France will die.
