Interactive Chart: Deaths per TWh by Energy Source

HT DSMOGBLOG.COM

Timely for her to post this, since I've been thinking a lot about this subject.
People are deathly afraid of radiation, and perceive nuclear as being much more dangerous than it actually is in relation to coal. I think they tend to compare nuclear with solar and wind, rather than coal. Odd.

A point I'd like to make is that nuclear power never has and likely never will cause the extinction of a species.