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I'm sorry but people seem to get greedy and too complacent only around nuclear?

• blhack 15y ago
  Worst case scenario at a coal-fired power plant is what? The plant gets destroyed? A few tens or hundreds of people die? This is a tragedy, of course, but nowhere near the level of a nuclear disaster like we're seeing in Japan right now.
  • orangecat 15y ago
    The worst case scenario for coal is very close to the average case scenario, which is that tens of thousands of people die every year from pollution-induced heart attacks and strokes, as well as mining accidents. But that doesn't make exciting headlines. This is a tragedy, of course, but nowhere near the level of a nuclear disaster like we're seeing in Japan right now. Last I heard the current death toll from Fukushima was 2, and those workers were killed by the tsunami itself.
  • william42 15y ago
    Worst case scenario at a coal-fired power plant is that it becomes a thermobaric bomb, or the Centralia Mine Fire.