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by himinlomax 640 days ago
Nobody died at TMI.

Nobody died at Fukushima (from the nuclear incident that is, 10000 died because of the Tsunami)

Hundreds of people died at Chernobyl.

Those are all the major accidents at production nuclear power plant that have ever occured. There are no others.

There is just one that was deadly, and it is about as representative of the safety of nuclear power as flying in a 1920s' plane compared to a state of the art Airbus.

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No one died at Fukushima... They did have to evacuate over 150,000 people though. I'm not sure we should be normalizing that.
That's still pretty much a freak incident and insignificant compared to the direct damage (i.e. even if we exclude CO2) burning fossil fuels (especially coal is causing)
'have to' is a contested point here.