Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources
by pmorici on Thursday March 17, 2011 @12:00AM
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I took a class once that discussed the relative safety of nuclear power and one of the key points the instructor made was the fact that radiation levels in the vicinity of a coal fired power plant are actually higher than in the vicinity of a nuclear power plant under normal operating conditions.
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Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources
by RK on Thursday March 17, 2011 @12:41AM
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I've heard a similar story. The story was about a safety inspection at a nuclear power plant where they opened some large blast doors and the radiation alarms went off. After a while they realized that the radiation monitors were responding to a coal plant something like 25 miles away and the wind had shifted toward the nuclear plant.