• dismalnow@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    And on which timeline? Nuclear power has come a LONG way since 3MI, let alone Chernobyl.

    One human has died from failures of a modern nuclear plant in the last 15 years.

    I don’t know the stats, but it’s quite likely that a non-zero number techs have died servicing and installing the wind facilities.

    In which case, they’re about even - or wind is worse. But in the grand scheme, it’s a non issue either way.

    • Scrabbone@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      In your argument as to when a nuclear power plant kills people, as I see it, you consider the period too short. It may be that few or no one dies from the direct explosion, but the worst thing about the accidents is the immense amount of gamma radiation. Radiation deaths often do not occur immediately, but only after some time. It is therefore difficult to estimate how many deaths are due to radiation from nuclear catastrophes, but to estimate it with one death is definitely too low in my opinion. The number of deaths from nuclear power is certainly not comparable to solar or wind power due to its magnitude.