text: It's deaths per kilowatt of energy produced - so the statistics I quote would not change if nuclear were more widespread.  NASA has also proven that nuclear has saved millions of lives since 1970 - due to decreased air pollution - and millions more live will be saved if we more widely adopt nuclear.  As for cancers, in the worst nuclear disaster ever - Chernobyl - the UN estimates that only 49 people died - mainly those poor souls who were sent to cleanup high-level waste with nothing but a shovel and a lead blanket.  The UN also estimates that up to 4,000 people have died or will die prematurely.  I'm not minimizing this tragedy.  However, even under this worst-case scenario, the damage was limited.  
  
  Workers also fall off of wind turbines and roofs installing wind turbines and die or are hurt - do these tragedies not count in your view?
  
  Though, I'm guessing - despite nearly all evidence to the contrary - you'll still be irrationally afraid of nuclear.  "Wow" indeed ...