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It's a pretty high bar. Three mile island has a lifetime production of ~250 TWh, coal kills ~25 people per TWh. So if it had killed ~6000 people it would be wi
by avar 3y ago
It's a pretty high bar. Three mile island has a lifetime production of ~250 TWh, coal kills ~25 people per TWh.
So if it had killed ~6000 people it would be within the accepted norms of the energy industry for anything that isn't nuclear.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
- natmaka 3y agoNowadays this is not about "nuclear vs. coal" but "nuclear vs. renewables (which are way less deadly than coal)".