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Compared to nuclear, far more people die because of renewable energy per megawatt. It is not better to exhaust the potential of renewable sources, since they lead to more excess deaths. There are a lot of sources that demonstrate this, so I just searched for one: http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull211/...

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That article is written by a scientific adviser to the Atomic Energy Control Board, Ottawa, Canada.

If that doesn't bother you, consider that the facts cited come from a "recent" report published in 1978.

Considering that is only one of many different articles I have seen on the occasion, yeah, it doesn't bother me. If you wanted to bother me, you'd post something that debunks the claim. I made a search (albeit, a brief one) for the same and didn't find anything.

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