Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased...
by wapz on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:00AM
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How is the mortality rate of wind and hydro calculated? Is it from engineers being killed during maintenance/construction? It feels like those two would have a mortality rate or something similar to "a house."
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Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased...
by ekianjo on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:03AM
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Hydro means dams and dams can cause a number of accidents if they are not properly maintained.
Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased...
by vidarh on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @07:27AM
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Specifically, hydro was the cause of the worst single power generation accident of all time: 171,000 dead when the Banqiao dam failed.
Before anyone assumes that will never happen again: There are fears over multiple large dams, including Mosul, where a failure worst case could kill a million.
If we're lucky Banqiao will be a one-off, but large dams are massive risk factors because they need ongoing maintanenance forever, and are often upstream of some of the densest populated areas. On top of that they're also ecological disasters.
Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased...
by Turing_Machine on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @09:22AM
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Look at the geography and population downstream of the Three Gorges Dam in China for an extreme worst-case scenario.
Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased...
by josefx on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @11:06AM
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Also when they are properly maintained. You don't want to be the maintenance guy getting killed by the combination of high water pressure and a 1cm wide opening.
Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased...
by josefx on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:31PM
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Here an actuall video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEtbFm_CjE0 . It is the pressure difference that results on a large force on any unlucky diver.
Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased...
by Symmetry on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:17AM
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In addition to the factors unique to dam failure, large construction projects will statistically result in dead workmen - at least over multiple projects.
Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased...
by themaninthedark on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @09:24AM
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Nuclear is a large construction project as well.
Re:Nuclear plant shutdowns tied to coal pollution, decreased...
by Symmetry on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @09:38AM
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Well, really every form of power generation either involves construction or people clambering about on roofs they might fall off of. But this is the reason that forms of power generation with no pollution still kill a certain number of people per trillion Whr.