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Originally Posted by YGG-
yes but you can't possibly have a Chernobyl-type accident in a coal mine, ever...
(and I'm all for nuclear power plants)
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Nor can you have such an accident in a US-style, or French-style, or anyone-in-the-Western-world-style nuclear powerplant. It takes the lack of concern shown by the Soviet government (and other dysfunctional governments) to manage that big a screw-up.
Meanwhile, the death-toll from coal is very large and ongoing. A dozen miners here; a hundred there. Black-lung. Mountain-top removal for "strip mining." Mine fires like Centralia. And on, and on, and...
Remember, too, that nuclear waste decays to quite benign levels in only a few-thousand years; the chemical by-products of coal and combustion thereof are forever (on anything less than a geologic time-scale).
Xenophon