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by LorenPechtel 1876 days ago
That's bad data. Nuke is getting blamed for the Fukushima deaths that were due to the evacuation--neglecting the fact that the safest option was to stay put. If you replace the evacuation deaths (IIRC ~500) with the stay-put deaths (most likely zero) you about halve the nuke death rate.

The larger deployment of utility-scale solar does seem to have reduced it's death rate. (Many of the solar deaths are from falling off the roof during installation or maintenance. Utility-scale solar is normally on the ground and with better safety measures.)
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jtolmar 1876 days ago
> Nuke is getting blamed for the Fukushima deaths that were due to the evacuation

I think this is fair. /All/ deaths from nuclear and renewable power are due to accidents and bad decisions. Accidents and bad decisions aren't going to go away. It takes a monumentally boneheaded decision to make a nuclear power plant dangerous, but apparently the rate of monumentally boneheaded decisions is one per thirty years at our current level of nuclear power usage.

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freeflight 1876 days ago
> but apparently the rate of monumentally boneheaded decisions is one per thirty years at our current level of nuclear power usage.

That rate is very likely to increase as time goes on and reactors become older and thus more prone to failure/some freak low probability incident happening.

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