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Nuclear safety

posted 15 years ago by Rammu
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I recently came across a list of fatal accidents related to energy production. Here's the summary:

Hydroelectric plants: 3776
Coal mine accidents: 2746
Oil accidents: 2355
LPG accidents: 1674
Nuclear power accidents in western reactors: 0
Nuclear power accidents: 56 (Chernobyl* 1986)

Source (in Danish): http://akraft.dk/ulykker.htm

* It must be noted that Chernobyl accident is only possible in that particular kind of reactor (RBMK). RBMK reactors are only found in the former Soviet Union, and they are being decommisioned as new power plants are built. For more information read: http://world-nuclear.org/info/inf31.htm

[–] johnmiller (3357) 5 years ago

Nuclear Power was our great savior from carbon-based electricity production. But, the Hollywood Left, like Hanoi Jane Fonda, did everything to stop it.

So, instead, we have had four decades of coal as our major electricity production source. And, megatons, if not gigatons, of CO2, coal dust, and other chemicals, being pumped into our atmosphere.