Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Nuclear Energy: Discussion
11:15 am
Mr. Frank Turvey:
There was a question about safety. I do not know if members are aware of this, but a study was done not too long ago that compared accidental deaths at all types of station - coal, oil, hydroelectric and gas stations. The bottom line was that there were fewer deaths per unit of electricity generated by nuclear power than by all of the others. If one were to look at deaths by accident alone, one would see that nuclear energy has the best record.