Nuclear Safety 04
Nuclear Safety 04 : Attacks on hydro plants on the other hand have been successful at compromising dams, with the 2010 Baksan hydroelectric power station attack being the most recent successful terrorist attack on a hydroelectric power plant. To date, there have been five serious accidents (core damage) in the world since 1970 (one at Three Mile Island in 1979; one at Chernobyl in 1986; and three at Fukushima-Daiichi in 2011), corresponding to the beginning of the operation of generation II reactors. This leads to on average one serious accident happening every eight years worldwide. Despite these accidents, the safety record of nuclear power, in terms of lives lost per unit of electricity delivered, is better than every other major source of power in the world. These deaths per unit of energy generated statistics include the full life cycle energy chain, with for example most immediate coal and natural gas deaths occurring in the extraction, mining and transporting side of their energy chain whereas in nuclear and hydro powers case, deaths predominately occur in the operational side of the chain. Furthermore, although the nuclear power industry did rely on poorly ventilated uranium mining practices in times past, with a non-zero number of accidents and fatalities, primarily due to radon inhalation
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