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Re:Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy by GuB-42 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:04AM (#30163392)
I have conflicting data about deaths per TWh

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

Most other sources repeat either numbers.

And it is not surprising, because we are talking about very different things. Solar-related deaths are mostly people falling from rooftops, Hydro-related deaths mostly come from a single event: the Banqiao dam failure, and Nuclear-related deaths depend a lot on how you count Chernobyl and Fukushima. Coal goes through the roof, mostly because of pollution.

We simply don't know how many people die from the Chernobyl disaster, from 31 to hundreds of thousands, yes, it is that fuzzy. I think the most official number is around 4000, but who knows what number they used to make these numbers? It is probably in the fine print somewhere if really look for it.

Mining operations are also taken into account, but how deep shall we go into the supply chain? Do we count the fatalities related to the raw materials that make the plant? What about the guy who dies in a car accident going to work at the power plant?

Do these numbers even make sense or are they just politics? By carefully picking my metrics, I could probably make coal looks very safe and solar very dangerous if I wanted to.

Re:Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:29AM (#30163806)
Its not conflicting data, its just the decade old numbers I mentioned in my comment.

The link I used used those numbers before they updated them with newer data.