Sure. Nuclear is .03 deaths/TWh, solar is .02. Better!
But gas is 2.8, and coal is ~28 (!), which make a .01 deaths/TWh difference pretty meaningless when there's a huge undersupply and we need all the clean (enough!) and safe (enough!) energy we can get.
My point remains. *If there is an accident*, nuclear is still the most toxic. Accidents are almost always caused by human error and humans error by design. It's literally how we learn. Not to mention that the majority of the nuke plants in the US were designed and built in the 70's.
You're absolutely right, nuclear accidents are badly toxic! Coal particulate emissions are too. The good news is that we don't have to guess at hypotheticals; we've run coal plants for decades, had multiple bad nuclear accidents, and measured the impacts of both. These numbers include all that.
I'm guessing the former residents of Fukushima probably disagree...
May 7, 2025 18:15