Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis?

Re:Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis? by keanzu on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @10:58PM (#21998446)

By measuring deaths per TWhr. Nuclear power plants generate a lot of power and very few deaths. The amount of energy generated by nuclear is so vast that it more than outweighs incidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima over the long-term.

This source only has "rooftop solar" which is more deadly than nuclear power.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...

I don't have numbers for non-rooftop solar.

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Re:Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis? by millstone on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:13PM (#21998508)

I suspect this is just a proxy measure for rate of construction. Construction workers fall off roofs because they're installing solar panels. They don't fall off nuclear towers, because the world has mostly stopped building them.

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Re:Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis? by DuskStar on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:32PM (#21998593)

I'd think the size of the project matters more. Nuclear power plant? Better bet OSHA's there. But a rooftop solar installation? Lol no.

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Re:Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis? by Krasnol on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:27PM (#21998570)

What is the amount of long term deaths for Chernobyl and Fukushima?

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Re:Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis? by keanzu on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:50PM (#21998659)

There's been 1 recorded radiation death.

The other 2202 deaths were all related to evacuation. The cause of these early deaths were due to the disruption of hospital operations, exacerbation of pre-existing health problems and the stress of dramatic changes in life. It is stated that the vast majority of people who died during their evacuation were elderly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

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Re:Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis? by Krasnol on Thursday January 09, 2020 @12:03PM (#22002964)

I wonder if people repeating those phrases are just ignorant or if you do it intentionally.

1) You don't know the true numbers of deaths around Chernobyl and we'll probably never know.

2) People are still dying, their children are and their children will probably die early too.

Here: http://www.hilfe-tschernobyl.de/tschernobyl-katastrophe/ you can help. I'm sure they could use some Bill Gates attention too...

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Re:Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis? by keanzu on Thursday January 09, 2020 @07:12PM (#22007274)

If you have an issue with the numbers take it up with the Japanese government, they commissioned the study. Source was provided.

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Re:Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis? by Krasnol on Friday January 10, 2020 @12:09AM (#22008468)

I didn't even mention Fukushima there.

The health issues connected to Fukushima will show themselves in due time, just like they do with Chernobyl up to today and for many years to come.

Your ignorance of those facts clearly presented to you show how disgusting the discussion is being lead on the side of the nuclear supporters.

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