alt Hacker NewsHydro electricity is also one of the most dangerous forms of energy production:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure
(This is the worst disaster, but could put Chernobyl to shame?)
Full list here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_st...
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iso1631 • last Sunday at 6:08 PM
Well most dangerous apart from coal, oil, gas, biomass?
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
And that's before you bring into the deaths due to climate change
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Sure, if you consider only local dangers and don't care at all about regional or global externalities.