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You’d be surprised how many people die every year from coal power exhaust. People naturally overweight low frequency high impact events like a nuclear meltdown
by ashtonkem 6y ago
You’d be surprised how many people die every year from coal power exhaust.
People naturally overweight low frequency high impact events like a nuclear meltdown but drastically undervalue high frequency low impact events. Someone dying early because they lived too close to a coal plant doesn’t make the news, but in terms of actual human impact it trounces nuclear’s impact by multiple orders of magnitude.
- ben-schaaf 6y agoCoal power plants also carry a lot more radiation into their surrounding environment than nuclear power plants: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...