[OC] All-Time Deadliest Accidents and Disasters vs. One Year of Traffic DeathsSubmitted by databeautifier t3_11ij5le in dataisbeautiful
databeautifier OP t1_jb13egb wrote
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u/tremynci is correct: the source (listed in the visualization and my top-level comment) has the 1957 Mayak nuclear waste storage tank explosion as the all-time deadliest nuclear disaster with 200-6,000 deaths. I took the high end of this estimate (also mentioned in the visualization and my top-level comment).
Chernobyl is listed by the source as having a high end estimate of "4000+" with the note:
>Far higher death toll estimates have been made, but are disputed.
I took the Mayak disaster rather than going with disputed figures.
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