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pqtyw 3 hours ago

> What would be the net effect?

It wouldn't be a linear increase i.e. you can more or less estimate how many people would die per MWh produced in hydro, gas, coal etc. plants.

With nuclear if somebody dies that means a some sort of catastrophic event likely occurred regardless if a 1 or 100+ people die the reactor will be out of commission and it will cost a massive amount of money to contain it.

anonymars 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not following the argument for being able to estimate deaths per [T]Wh for hydro, gas, etc. but not nuclear. I think hydroelectric is especially analogous

peterfirefly 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Should we include this case?

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

anonymars 22 minutes ago | parent [-]

Why wouldn't we?