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by Flere-Imsaho 63 days ago
Hydro electricity is also one of the most dangerous forms of energy production:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

(This is the worst disaster, but could put Chernobyl to shame?)

Full list here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_st...

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Well most dangerous apart from coal, oil, gas, biomass?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...

And that's before you bring into the deaths due to climate change

I should have pre-fixed it with "out of renewable energy".
Sure, if you consider only local dangers and don't care at all about regional or global externalities.
Yes, there are no global externalities from coal, oil and gas...