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In 2019*, from the beginning of the year up to this day in that year, all world nuclear power plants generated enough energy to supply low-carbon electricity (12 gCO2eq/kWh) to
534,564,060
French households during 1 year
(equivalent of 2,779,733,114 MWh)
If this electricity had been produced from
coal (820 gCO2/kWh)
, it would have caused the emission of greenhouse gases equivalent to those of
...
389,163,258
additional vehicles
in circulation
(equivalent of 1,945,816,291 tonnes of CO2eq)
Furthermore, this same electricity produced
from coal would have been
responsible for
68,409
premature deaths
(24.61.deaths/TWh, while the human toll of nuclear power and of modern renewable energy sources is below 0.1)