Death rates from energy production per TWh - eviltoast

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    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      For nuclear it does, depening how many cancer deaths have been caused by mainly Chernobyl. That is however massivly disputed, as it thankfully only ever happend once and well the Soviets had no intresst in actually being honest about that. Depending on the measures that can be thousands of deaths, due to an accident.

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        1 year ago

        The “accidents” (or rather intentional genocide) involving native americans, uzbeks, siberians, nigerians, and lower caste indians in the upstream of the fuel cycle dwarf chernobyl by at least an order of magnitude. Still not rivalling the coal or oil industry, but not far off.

    • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
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      1 year ago

      Idunno, lots of deadly accidents amongst coal miners and offshore oil rig workers, to name a couple…