Death rates from energy production per TWh

Re:Death rates from energy production per TWh by lm28469 on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:24AM (#19909757)

I'm all for nuclear but let's be honest here, many more people died prematurely because of Chernobyl, the nuclear cloud were all over Europe, the thousands of people who were on site to contain the disaster got very high doses of radiation too.

https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-cher...

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Re:Death rates from energy production per TWh by roenxi on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @07:58PM (#19915061)

> In the published estimates below, studies have utilised a methodology termed the 'linear no-threshold model'

The numbers already round to 0 when compared to pretty much any other industrial process we undertake. Then on top of that the model used is the LNT. That model needs extraordinary evidence to support its wild assumptions. I haven't been able to find a source for that evidence yet.

LNT is a paranoid model. Under the LNT, building with granite is killing people through increased radiation. The airplane industry has probably killed more people with radiation under the LNT model than Chernobyl has. We have yet to picket airports for their radiation risk.

The unproovable deaths from Chernobyl may as well be ignored. We don't count that sort of statistical hypothesizing for any other anything that is comparable to building a power plant.

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