In the video (below the fold) physical scientist Tom LaTourette from Rand Corporation gives a talk on the subject at Google:
It's too bad we can't see his slides.
He mentions TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima as the big three accidents, but there have been some other close calls like Fermi 1 and Chalk River.
He is generally accurate in his perspective, but I don't like his comparison of nuclear safety (estimated cancer deaths following a nuclear accident) with coal mining accidents. A more balanced approach is to compare estimated cancer deaths from nuclear power generation with estimated cancer deaths from fossil fuels energy generation AND mining/fracking accidents with uranium mining accidents. James Conca has found nuclear is least expensive energy source today and the safest. I haven't parsed through his details, and of course, that's where the "devil" lies.
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