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Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game by rekoil on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @05:10AM (#38275110)
Mortality rate in deaths per thousand terawatt hour[1]:

- Brown coal: 32.72

- Coal: 24.62

- Oil: 18.43

- Biomass: 4.63

- Natural gas: 2.82

- Hydro: 1.3

- Wind: 0.04

- Nuclear: 0.03

- Solar: 0.02

Again, these are adjusted per 1000TWh, and includes nuclear catastrophes like Chernobyl and Fukushima

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

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Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game by hef19898 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @07:02AM (#38275801)
Nominally it includes Chernobyl. Caveat, noby, not in the USSR, the successor states nor the West ever really counted the Chernobyl victims, hence the official.number of what, 30-ish victims.
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Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game by natmaka on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:34AM (#38276429)
The hydro stats are mainly due to the Banqiao case, which is a fluke: in similar conditions anything would go boom with way less latency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35521090
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Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game by stjohnswarts on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @12:19PM (#38279362)
do you know if the solar ratio includes falling off roofs?
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