jimpeel
Well-Known Member
So how about these apples:
SOURCE:
Comparison of accident statistics in primary energy production.
(Electricity generation accounts for about 40% of total primary energy)
Fuel ......... Immediate fatalities 1970-92 ......... Who? ........ Normalised to deaths per TWy* electricity
Coal ....................... 6400 ......................... workers ...................... 342
Natural gas ............. 1200 .................... workers & public ................. 85
Hydro ..................... 4000 ......................... public ........................ 883
Nuclear .................... 31 ........................... workers ....................... 8
* Basis: per million MWe operating for one year, not including plant construction, based on historic data which is unlikely to represent current safety levels in any of the industries concerned.
Source: Ball, Roberts & Simpson, Research Report #20, Centre for Environmental & Risk Management, University of East Anglia, 1994; Hirschberg et al, Paul Scherrer Institut, 1996; in: IAEA, Sustainable Development and Nuclear Power, 1997; Severe Accidents in the Energy Sector, Paul Scherrer Institut, 2001).
