Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
by pqtyw on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:40PM
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> What would be the net effect?
It wouldn't be a linear increase i.e. you can more or less estimate how many people would die per MWh produced in hydro, gas, coal etc. plants.
With nuclear if somebody dies that means a some sort of catastrophic event likely occurred regardless if a 1 or 100+ people die the reactor will be out of commission and it will cost a massive amount of money to contain it.
Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
by anonymars on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:56PM
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I'm not following the argument for being able to estimate deaths per [T]Wh for hydro, gas, etc. but not nuclear. I think hydroelectric is especially analogous
Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
by peterfirefly on Thursday April 30, 2026 @02:12PM
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Should we include this case?
What would be the net effect? (I think it would be roughly on par with gas or hydroelectric and an order of magnitude safer than other fossil fuels even with this extremely pessimistic hypothetical)