> 1. No modern coal-plant leads to waste areas of uninhabitable land. Nuclear Plants do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_ash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_

> 1. No modern coal-plant leads to waste areas of uninhabitable land. Nuclear Plants do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_ash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_ash Over 71 million tons of the stuff per year (According to wikipedia sources) in the US alone that has to be stored somewhere. Mostly* in landfill sites or ash ponds which renders them "waste areas of uninhabitable land", and this is part of normal operating procedures, not when something goes catastrophically wrong. * Recycling accounts for 43% according to wikipedia sources.