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Number of accidents is not what counts here. It's number of deaths caused per terawatt-hour of generation from a particular source. This normalizes things in th
by acidburnNSA 7y ago
Number of accidents is not what counts here. It's number of deaths caused per terawatt-hour of generation from a particular source. This normalizes things in the context we need to make energy decisions. The numbers are that coal kills 350 people for every 1 that nuclear kills.
https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
We also have figured out the solution to commercial nuclear waste disposal. In fact, we've known it for a long time (deep geologic repository), but there's a persistent myth that we don't know what to do with it. Here are photos of the under-construction deep geologic repository in Finland: http://www.posiva.fi/en/media/image_gallery?gfid_2061=94#gallery_2061 http://www.posiva.fi/en/media/image_gallery?gfid_2061=94#gal...