Nuclear vs. Fossil Fuels: The Numbers Nobody Knows

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00][music] >> You had a tsunami hit the nuclear power plant and no one died from that disaster. And then from Chernobyl, people died. The range of estimates can of ranging from hundreds to maybe 4,000 is probably the kind of upper bound on that, which is obviously tragic. But across those three huge disasters for over, you know, 50 or 60 years, you've had like thousands of deaths in the low thousands of deaths at most. Now, compare that to the number of people that die only from air pollution from burning fossil fuels every year, which is several million at least, right? So, you've got several million dying from fossil fuels every single year, and you have thousands dying from nuclear over decades.