# Contrast different power sources in a disaster

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**Created:** [March 14, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contrast-different-power-sources-in-a-disaster/574696 "2011-03-14T20:10:08Z")\
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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> It should be noted (and I’d like to forestall a political argument here), that the “mortality” from a nuke plant failure, (e.g., TMI had one fatality and insignificant radiation release)

TMI had a fatality? Can you provide more information? Offhand I don’t _recall_ any deaths.

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