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OwOarchist@pawb.social 12 hours ago
Absolute numbers are meaningless. It needs to be weighted against how much electricity was produced with each.
(And why is solar not mentioned? Plenty of solar installers die from falling off of roofs and whatnot.)
Forester@pawb.social 11 hours ago
ourworldindata.org/nuclear-energy ourworldindata.org/renewable-energy
valgarf@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
On the site there is also a direct comparison: ourworldindata.org/…/death-rates-from-energy-prod…
Grouping Hydro with other renewables is not very nice for wind and solar, which are pretty safe - with the added benefit of being cheaper than nuclear power.
Forester@pawb.social 3 hours ago
And Nuclear is on par with the safety of solar and wind but you seem prompt to forget that. Your also not counting the cost incurred by renewables being non continuous sources of power. So yes it is cheaper to run a wind or solar farm untill you have to kick on the peaker plant cause the wind died and teh sun went down unless your in one of the super rare places that has pumped storage.