[ZeroGravitas]

That's almost certainly just an artifact of old data, and I typed that before realizing your URL has the year 2011 in it.

A lot more utility solar has been installed since then. And continual improvements in efficiency spread the mining related deaths over a great many more TWh.

Our World in Data covers this and every time they update the stats, solar gains on nuclear. It's currently in the lead but they haven't updated for 6 years:

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

[opo]

>A lot more utility solar has been installed since then.

Yes, utility solar is very safe. Unfortunately rooftop solar is much more dangerous and also much, much more costly. So one has to wonder why anyone supports the massive subsidies that are still given to rooftop solar.

[ZeroGravitas]

Note that it's massively more expensive in the US than other nations due to paperwork and regulations. But even there it costs about the same as the low end of nuclear costs per KWh.

Adding it when building the home in the first place eliminates much of the cost and danger since you don't double up on a lot of things.

[RobotToaster]

Thanks, that's the website I was originally looking for.

I agree it's close, and either way both are orders of magnitudes safer than coal.

[Moldoteck]

yep. On the other hand, interestingly, most nuclear deaths are from Fukushima evacuation which wasnt necessary, due to too small dose