
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


We questioned the death count of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in last week’s More or Less podcast. In the end, Professor Jim Smith of Portsmouth University came up with an estimate of 15,000 deaths.
But we wondered how deadly nuclear power is overall when compared to other energy sources? Dr Hannah Ritchie of the University of Oxford joins Charlotte McDonald to explore.
Image:Chernobyl nuclear plant, October 1st 1986
By BBC Radio 44.7
770770 ratings
We questioned the death count of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in last week’s More or Less podcast. In the end, Professor Jim Smith of Portsmouth University came up with an estimate of 15,000 deaths.
But we wondered how deadly nuclear power is overall when compared to other energy sources? Dr Hannah Ritchie of the University of Oxford joins Charlotte McDonald to explore.
Image:Chernobyl nuclear plant, October 1st 1986

7,588 Listeners

376 Listeners

524 Listeners

1,049 Listeners

294 Listeners

5,470 Listeners

2,118 Listeners

2,091 Listeners

487 Listeners

35 Listeners

347 Listeners

413 Listeners

828 Listeners

236 Listeners

337 Listeners

81 Listeners

475 Listeners

369 Listeners

232 Listeners

127 Listeners

324 Listeners

3,180 Listeners

68 Listeners

833 Listeners

3,005 Listeners

505 Listeners

625 Listeners

120 Listeners

269 Listeners

256 Listeners

65 Listeners

78 Listeners

3 Listeners