> Slag is less of a risk than nuclear waste is but has to be treated similarly Im my country (Poland) over 20 000 people die yearly of lung cancer. Significant

> Slag is less of a risk than nuclear waste is but has to be treated similarly Im my country (Poland) over 20 000 people die yearly of lung cancer. Significant percent of them never smoked cigarettes and the main reason they got that cancer was smog. Which in Poland is almost exclusively seen in winters and caused by burning coal. Chernobyl caused up to 4000 victims according to the worst estimates (including cancer developed later). Every year in just one country there's more victims of coal energetics than victims of nuclear power in the whole world over all time.