Humans, animals, who cares? In fact, let’s just go full phylum-agnostic!
5,000 deaths from nuclear power. (humans)
140,000 deaths from renewable energy. (wildlife)
70 million deaths from a single dose of mouthwash. (~100 miillion bacteria per ml of saliva, assuming vaguely 0.7 ml of saliva in the mouth)
Seriously, though, renewables are technically more lethal than nuclear but that’s mainly because NPPs are usually designed for extreme bulk production and (AFAIK) most renewable deaths are due to construction accidents. Just look at that rooftop solar number. All in all, both renewables and nuclear are pretty safe as far as pure mortality goes. Beyond mortality we of course run into the nuclear waste issue but that’s another story.
Coal is comically bad on so many levels it’s amazing how insistent some people are on maintaining it. It even manages to lose to nuclear on the metric of radioactive pollution. That’s… impressive, I suppose. I’d prefer it if it could be impressive in a history book.
Humans, animals, who cares? In fact, let’s just go full phylum-agnostic!
5,000 deaths from nuclear power. (humans)
140,000 deaths from renewable energy. (wildlife)
70 million deaths from a single dose of mouthwash. (~100 miillion bacteria per ml of saliva, assuming vaguely 0.7 ml of saliva in the mouth)
Seriously, though, renewables are technically more lethal than nuclear but that’s mainly because NPPs are usually designed for extreme bulk production and (AFAIK) most renewable deaths are due to construction accidents. Just look at that rooftop solar number. All in all, both renewables and nuclear are pretty safe as far as pure mortality goes. Beyond mortality we of course run into the nuclear waste issue but that’s another story.
Coal is comically bad on so many levels it’s amazing how insistent some people are on maintaining it. It even manages to lose to nuclear on the metric of radioactive pollution. That’s… impressive, I suppose. I’d prefer it if it could be impressive in a history book.