https://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-energy https://ourworldindata.org/renewable-energy

You havent been attacked by a solar panel? Theyre awfully vicious in my area /s

Real answer is probably engineering issues, DIY, and a healthy dose of propaganda-number-fudging

The chinese claim only 26k deaths some estimates place it at 260k deaths i'm not being exact its a ballpark. No one source tracks all deaths from renewables or fossil fuels or nuclear. 52 dams collapsed not one.

structural failures rather than a product of the power source

and what do you think collapsed the dams if not the power source?

Its mismanagement and failure to properly engineer for the situation on hand. Water is heavy the built weak dams to generate hydro power. They had a cascade of containment failure events. likely ~130k people died directly from this event. The other ~10k is a rough estimate on other deaths from similar incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hydroelectric_power_station_failures

There is no one ideal energy source. The best approach is, as always, to diversify. Relying completely on one source is irresponsible. Nuclear with renewables is a fantastic mix. Especially in countries that can't reliably generate significant amounts of electricity with hydro.

Renewable sources of energy are safer

They're actually not, generally speaking. All types of renewable energy, with the exception of solar, cause more deaths than nuclear does.

• https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh
• https://cheatsheets.davidveksler.com/deaths-per-terawatt-hour.html

Some articles report slightly lower death tolls for renewables, but don't provide any sources for that data. Geothermal energy, which neither of the two sources above includes for some reason, sits right next to wind, so slightly above nuclear in terms of deaths caused per terawatt-hour.

I live by a bunch of nuclear plants. One day, I got a text alert from the government saying something was going on at one of the nuclear plants. I decided I was probably already going to die and the went back to watching porn on the toilet. I will have my dream of being an environmental telling skeleton.

Nuclear is very green.

Source: Watching too many Simpsons episodes in my misspent youth

Are the fossil fuels used to create wind and solar power also unavoidable?

Nuclear causes the fewest deaths out of all available energy sources, except solar, which is a tiny bit lower in that regard. Both wind and hydro have a higher death toll, with wind being just slightly above nuclear, and hydro being a lot higher (about 40x more deaths).

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh

Usually I wouldn't cite this source, but in this case their data matches other, more trustworthy ones, and is the first that shows up in search engines.

If you get into a pool with a cow, its not going to be nice to you either.

I see you are not familiar with sea cows.

Most of the renewables count is one dam that failed in China too.

The only reason it killed so many was the poop grade soviet response. Men were cheaper than machines. Saving face was more important than casualties. Russia still employs blocking brigades in Ukraine for the same beleifs the USSR mindset never died.

Its the best model we have it may not be 100% accurate but it is better than nothing and assumes any radiation exposure is carcinogenic. However in gen pop (read healthy adults) our natural repair mechanisms are generally apt to repair damage caused by exposure to doses less than 5mSv/y

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1350448715000086

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure Mostly that but a few others.

Can’t make more radioactive rocks if we run out.

Well ... unless you use your uranium reactor to create plutonium... But, you're right -- even then, it would eventually run out. So fission power isn't renewable.

Fusion power, though... If you can make a viable fusion reactor ecosystem that can use regular ordinary hydrogen as its input fuel, then that's at least psuedo-renewable. Yeah, eventually you'll have converted so much hydrogen into helium that hydrogen might start running low. But I'm guessing you could power 100 earths for 10 billion years before you used even half the hydrogen available.

We can actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor