Claim Verification: "Nuclear power is too dangerous to be a major part of any clean-energy future." — Disproved

Automated fact-verification of the claim: "Nuclear power is too dangerous to be a major part of any clean-energy future." Verdict: DISPROVED Key Findings Nuclear power's death rate is approximately 0.03 deaths per terawatt-hour (TWh) of electricity — comparable to wind (0.04) and solar (0.02), and roughly 800 times lower than coal (B1, Our World in Data). A 2013 Tyndall Centre peer-reviewed study concludes that nuclear's safety risks are "more in line with lifecycle impacts from renewable energy technologies, and significantly lower than for coal and natural gas" (B2). Only 3 major accidents have occurred across 18,500+ cumulative reactor-years of commercial nuclear operation in 36 countries — and even when Chernobyl and Fukushima are included in the deaths/TWh calculation, the figure remains ~0.03 (B3). The International Energy Agency (IEA) explicitly describes nuclear as "a source of low emissions electricity that is available on demand to complement the leading role of renewables" (B4) — and the IPCC AR6 includes nuclear in multiple clean-energy mitigation scenarios. Files proof.py — Re-runnable Python verification script proof.md — Structured proof report proof_audit.md — Full verification audit trail proof_narrative.md — Plain-language summary proof.json — Machine-readable structured data Generated by Proof Engine v1.0.0.