safety

In this briefing paper, in cooperation with Energie-Fakten, we review the historic safety record of the energy sector over the past 30 years.

The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villingen, Switzerland owns the world's most comprehensive database on severe accidents in the energy sector. Accidents are considered as 'severe' if they have one of the following consequences: at least five fatalities or at least ten injured or at least 200 evacuees or an extensive ban on consumption of food or releases of hydrocarbons exceeding 10,000 t or enforced clean-up of land and water over an area of at least 25 km2 or economic loss of at least five million USD(2000).