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Coal also produces more radioactive waste - https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1018/do-coal-plants-release-more-radiation-than-nuclear-power-plants ht

• thehappypm 4y ago
  This is a bad stat. Chernobyl is still radioactive. Coal plants don’t irradiate whole regions
  • yellowapple 4y ago
    > Coal plants don’t irradiate whole regions They absolutely do. Where do you think that radioactive soot goes?
    • thehappypm 4y ago
      It’s so dilute compared to something like a nuclear meltdown.. like orders of magnitude
      • hrdwdmrbl 4y ago
        "the solution to pollution is dilution"
      • yellowapple 4y ago
        It still exists, and a normally-operating coal plant produces far more radioactive contamination than a normally-operating nuclear plant, by orders of magnitude: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...