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Summary[edit]

Common power plant types, listed in order of safety from most deadly to most safe, per unit of energy produced, as of 2016.

There are several different sources for this information, all different, but the general visual trend is the same.

ENERGY SOURCE        DEATHS FATAL/TWH     TWH NOTES

----------------- --------- --------- ------- -------------------------------------
Coal – world avg. 2,200,000    244.00   9,000 (10% world energy, 41% of electricity.)
Coal – China      1,300,000    325.00   4,000  Utilizing heavily-manual practices

Coal – USA                      10.00         Mostly open-pit and u/g machine
Oil               2,400,000     52.00  42,000 (40% of world energy, 4.4% of electricity)
Natural Gas         300,000     20.00  15,000 (15% of world energy, 11% of electricity)

Biofuel/Biomass                 50.00         
Peat                            50.00         
Solar (rooftop)          12      0.1      110  (1.0% of world electricity)
Wind                    105      0.15     700  (2.8% of world electricity)

Hydro                   400      0.10   4,000 (EU deaths, 2.2% of world energy)
Hydro + Banqiao)      4,000      1.00   4,000 (~4000 TWh/yr + 171,000 Banqiao dead)
Nuclear                 104      0.04   2,600 (3% of world energy, 10% of electricity)

----------------- --------- --------- ------- -------------------------------------
World             5,000,000     47    105,000 Terawatt-hours
Unaccounted for      95,400             1,500 TWh = 6.00% … fatalities prorated
  • Diagram 3 "Mean values of health effects, presented as deaths/TWh, for the respective forms of electricity generation throughout the EU", based on the EU ExternE project

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current20:46, 6 November 2016Thumbnail for version as of 20:46, 6 November 2016677 × 519 (17 KB)Hmmph (talk | contribs)Add data labels, simplify axis labels, change to bloody red for death, add Banqiao to hydro (not that it makes any visible difference.)
06:17, 27 October 2016Thumbnail for version as of 06:17, 27 October 2016672 × 521 (14 KB)Hmmph (talk | contribs)Source: http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/06/update-of-death-per-terawatt-hour-by.html Similar sources: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/ http://www.nuceng.ca/refer/risk/15%20-%20Polenp~1.pdf ...

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