Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power
by ben-schaaf on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:24PM
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Coal power plants also carry a lot more radiation into their surrounding environment than nuclear power plants: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
Yes, the real irony - coal plants release more radiation into the environment than nuclear plants ever have - including Chernobyl.
People naturally overweight low frequency high impact events like a nuclear meltdown but drastically undervalue high frequency low impact events. Someone dying early because they lived too close to a coal plant doesn’t make the news, but in terms of actual human impact it trounces nuclear’s impact by multiple orders of magnitude.