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Message 20 of 130 (740308)
11-03-2014 6:12 PM
Reply to: Message 17 by Taq
11-03-2014 5:13 PM


Re: All Good Things Suck At First
Out of curiousity, how did they calculate that?
Is that the total number of deaths ever caused divided by the total number of TW/h that has ever produced?
Or are the deaths divided by some kind of average production rate of energy, or something?
I wonder how the fact that so much coal has been used throughout history and that nuclear is a relative newcomer to the party effects the disparity in those levels if you calculate it over all the energy that has ever been produced rather than some kind of rate of production, or whatever.

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Message 24 of 130 (740342)
11-04-2014 9:05 AM
Reply to: Message 21 by Jon
11-03-2014 6:37 PM


Re: All Good Things Suck At First
The numbers can be skewed even if they focus on just a recent time period because less developed areas have no access to nuclear power. So nuclear power is only used in areas where safety standards can be followed to a T. And coal power is used everywhere, even in places where safety is not a priority.
That just makes it a difference between what has been the safest and what can be the safest.
Regardless, I still think nuclear has been and can be the safest of them all.
I was just curious if the disparity would change much.

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