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>Per kw produced it is safer than even solar or wind how do you define "safer"?
by dorgo 8y ago
>Per kw produced it is safer than even solar or wind
how do you define "safer"?
- option 8y agoless deaths. I was myself surprised when I learned this, but apparently people fall off while installing solar and wind; combine that with much smaller energy output and you'll get nuclear to be the safest
- peterashford 8y agoRooftop solar is quite different to industrial solar plants. The latter is on the ground, for example. Also, the installation of the latter is less ad-hoc and not done by small scale operators. I don't think the safety of a large power plant vs lots of home power installations is at all a fair metric.
- godelski 8y agoThe people falling off is just one example of death, not the only. You have to include total solar, industrial and home. But you get numbers that show that per kwhr nuclear results in less deaths (even when including predictions of deaths caused by future cancer incidents from Chernobyl and Fukushima). It honestly is a surprising result.
- sjwright 8y agoThe definition of "safer" is fewer people killed per kilowatt hour of energy generated. By that very reasonable metric, nuclear power is objectively less deadly than rooftop solar or wind turbines.
- michaelmrose 8y agoPeople are usually more ok with predictable risks that can be mitigated by the parties involved. Example taking proper safety precautions against falls vs oops we melted down and gave you cancer 10 years later.
- unityByFreedom 8y ago> People are usually more ok with predictable risks This ignores the point of above comments which is to educate people about which energy is safer per kWh generated. It's not like solar/wind installations are done w/out safety precautions already. Per kWh generated, nuclear is safer.