[hef19898]

That is a pretty low bar to pass: success, our product failed but didn't injure or kill anyone unintentionally, nothing to see, move on.

[avar]

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-p...

[natmaka]

Nowadays this is not about "nuclear vs. coal" but "nuclear vs. renewables (which are way less deadly than coal)".

[waveBidder]

Compared with the constant deaths from coal, yeah, it's a much better bet. Thankfully moot these days, but the overreaction to these problems set us back generations at solving climate change.