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Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources on Thursday March 17, 2011 @12:49AM (#2335113)
Smog is generated by petro chemicals, heat and sunlight.

That's why LA gets smog and Alaska doesn't - now why would hot sunny France with lots of people (and cars) get Smog but sparsely populated cold Scandanvia not?

Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources on Thursday March 17, 2011 @12:42AM (#2335098)
The majority of the worlds uranium is mined in Australia and Canada, countries with exceptional health and safety standards.

The comparison isn't exactly fair since uranium mines are in deep hard rock which is inherently safer - but in comparison a US coal mine is an insanely dangerous place. And I don't imagine standards in China are much better.

Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources on Thursday March 17, 2011 @12:36AM (#2335088)
Every other nuclear power reprocesses their waste into fuel.

The reason the US doesn't is partly nimby-ism and partly strategic, waste contains plutonium and if we need to make more nukes to fight the commies we will be glad we didn't reprocess it all.