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Originally Posted by HarryT
The amount of radiation is very small. The reason that coal power stations are now required to have "scrubbers" is almost entirely due to substances like suphur dioxide, which leads to "acid rain" (which is destroying a large part of America's wilderness areas). The radiation is negligible compared to the natural background radiation you're emersed in all the time.
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Yes, but so it the actual radiation released by nuclear power plants, as opposed to the perceived releases...