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Re:Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity by varjag on Sunday April 03, 2011 @06:22AM (#2402327)
6% of nuclear power plants had radiation-releasing incidents INES 4 or bigger. Chernobyl and Fukushima alone comprise about 2% of NPPs worldwide.

There must be some creative statistics at works behind those safety figures.

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Re:Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity by burgerbrain on Sunday April 03, 2011 @12:17PM (#2403052) 

  deaths/TerraWatt.
Such dastardly statistical trickery!
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Re:Nuclear Power is Safest Way to Make Electricity by varjag on Thursday April 07, 2011 @02:33AM (#2418464)
There is a big difference if you count Chernobyl deaths as 28 or as 4500.
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