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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by jade12 on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:06PM (#19174710)
Lest anyone forget, the Centralia (coal) mine fire has been burning since at least 1962 and no one knows how to stop it. The Fukushima Daiichi incident really doesn't seem that bad to me, comparatively speaking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by pixl97 on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:24PM (#19174858)
Granted that coal fires can occur due to other causes than mining (such as simply exposing a coal seam to air during construction). That said, mining greatly increases the number of incidents that occur.
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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by afterburner on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:00PM (#19176517)
The choice is not between coal and nuclear.
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