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This is enlightening chart. Only Solar beats nuclear in deaths/Wh of energy. Even wind power results in more deaths. Additionally this uses very pessimistic numbers for large nuclear incidents and doesn't count thinks like deaths and health complications due to pollution and emitted radiation from fossil-fuel power sources (which emit way more radiation than nuclear power).

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...



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