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Re:Third-Biggest U.S. Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy by dreamcompiler on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @12:23AM (#19906773)
Coal plants produce a lot of airborne radioactive compounds too -- vastly more than nuclear plants* and I don't know if scrubbers fix that problem. If they did, there would still be the problem of disposing of mixed waste from the scrubbers themselves.

*Citation not handy but easily googleable.

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Re:Third-Biggest U.S. Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy by amenod on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @05:20AM (#19907958)
Just to say it explicitly - the problem with nuclear plants is not radioactivity while they operate normally. It is the catastrophic consequences then something goes (really) wrong that are the real issue with them.
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Re:Third-Biggest U.S. Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy by dreamcompiler on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @08:26AM (#19908823)
Yes. Plus eventual waste disposal.
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Re:Third-Biggest U.S. Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy by EliRivers on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:29AM (#19909813)
If they were allowed to do it the same way coal is, it'd be no problem. Just chop it into fine particles and scatter into the atmosphere :)
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Re:Third-Biggest U.S. Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy by amenod on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @08:54AM (#19908979)
Yes.
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