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If you want the answer, here's the data. Solar is slightly safer than Nuclear, Nuclear is slightly safer than Wind. The three are WAY safer than fossil fuels.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh
this is ridiculous. when a windmill cumples or a solar panel gets hit by hail, they don't poison the region.
Pripyat and Fukushima don't happen with windmills and solar cells.
Such a patently stupid argument.
Does this look poisoned to you?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190701-why-plants-survived-chernobyls-deadly-radiation
Yeah it looks bombed-out as fuck to anything more complicated than plant-life. I'm not saying we shouldn't be pursuing nuclear energy, just that this argument feels very poorly constructed and intentionally misleading.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2022/scientists-cant-agree-about-chernobyls-impact-wildlife
It having an inconclusive effect on wildlife, but wildlife clearly being able to survive in the region, doesn't really detract from what I originally thought.
From the article you linked:
Yeah I think we both agree that nuclear is worth pursuing, it's not 100% safe but nothing is; even windmills catch fire or spin apart. It's far safer than fossil fuels.