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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-...