> There’s a statistic that floats around the internet claiming more radioactivity harm from coal power than from nuclear power, based on the principle that coal

> There’s a statistic that floats around the internet claiming more radioactivity harm from coal power than from nuclear power, based on the principle that coal power is essentially aerosolizing tons of particles with ever-so-slightly-higher-than-background radioactivity and there’s a lot more coal than nuclear. Fun fact, it would be a very easy engineering lift to convert coal plants to nuclear (you already have the steam turbines built and ready to go!). However, the moment they switch from a coal plant to a nuclear plant, the existing radioactivity left over from the coal burning operation would immediately get a nuclear plant shut down.