No energy source generates more fear per kilojoule produced or kills fewer people per terawatt-hour generated. The nuclear accounting problem is a problem of denominator confusion: the rare but vivid accidents receive the scrutiny that the continuous and ordinary deaths from air pollution do not. The Lifetime Risk-Adjusted Carbon Score compares every major electricity source on a common basis and the result inverts the conventional hierarchy of fear.
Compares the total US nuclear waste inventory against 130 million tonnes per year of coal combustion ash in hundreds of unlined surface ponds — a comparison of physical scale and toxicity that is arithmetically accurate and almost never presented.