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Well because in the end the amount of power is what matters? I'm not sure I understand your point. If you replace nuclear with renewable (or the other way arou

• xg15 9y ago
  Yes, however this assumes that number of deaths of any technology would linearly scale with its energy output. e.g. if I built n times more wind turbines to match the energy output of nuclear energy then, according to this measure, I would also get n times the number of wind-power-related deaths. I see no basis for that assumption, especially as nuclear energy has known risks that e.g. wind power doesn't.
  • saagarjha 9y ago
    > I see no basis for that assumption, especially as nuclear energy has known risks that e.g. wind power doesn't. But why do the risks matter? One would expect that two turbines or nuclear power plants would kill twice as many people, on average…