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by nl 3139 days ago
Is that 0.04 deaths/TWh sourced anywhere?

I've seen it before, but trying to trace it down is... troubling.

There's this report[1], where they only count accidents where more than 5 people were killed. This coincidentally manages to avoid counting all accidents in nuclear plants, where in the US alone there were 8 deaths[2]. I assume other energy sources would see a jump too, but that doesn't give me great confidence. The number from that report is different anwyay.

[3] http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/2513/2574258/pdfs/... references some authors which appear to have this 0.04 number, but I can't find the source.

[1] https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/reports/2010/nea6861-comparing-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor_accidents_in_t...

[3] http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/2513/2574258/pdfs/...