Re:How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment
by default_user on Monday October 17, 2016 @05:20PM
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Thank you, I did not know that.
Just to clarify, I'm not for coal either. It's just an issue that is never properly discussed in mainstream debates.
Re:How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment
by closeparen on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:06AM
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Everyone is "not for coal either" but when you strongly oppose nuclear power and weakly oppose coal power, you are fighting for more coal power.
Wrong.
The Centralia Mine fire has been burning since 1963.[1] The area of the mine is extremely dangerous, causing the city above to be seized by eminent domain and condemned. Poisonous, dangerously heated gases erupt from the ground at random. Chernobyl is reaching the point where the radiation levels are low enough for tourism. Centralia's mine fire will continue burning for up to 250 years. The released gasses will continue to contribute to atmospheric CO2 that entire time. The radiological components of coal combustion (radium gas being one) will continue to be released. It's already a known fact that coal power plants cause more radiation in the cities around them than nuclear plants do.
This is not the only mine fire in the state of Pennsylvania[2], let alone the only such site in the world.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Run_mine_fire
Say what you want about nuclear. Coal is far worse.