Nuclear accidents are rare events with huge impact, while fossil fuel deaths are common, with relatively small impact, killing by a thousand cuts. That doesn’t

Nuclear accidents are rare events with huge impact, while fossil fuel deaths are common, with relatively small impact, killing by a thousand cuts. That doesn’t imply burning fuel is less deadly, though. By some estimates, fossil fuels kill more people each year than nuclear _ever_ did (including the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23853-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23853-y says over a million each year. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935121000487 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00139... increases that to over 8 million (with huge uncertainty) Now, nuclear provides is a few % of global energy, so you’d have to scale it up, and many of those early deaths due to pollution may be not _that_ early, but it definitely isn’t a given that nuclear is more dangerous than burning fossil fuels.