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Originally Posted by echomodder
At least if the coal plant had a catastrophic failure it can be cleaned up and I could still live in my town after the disaster.
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The difference is that nuclear plants are only a "disaster" in the very rare cases when they suffer catastrophic failure, so it comes as a surprise. The coal plant is a disaster every day it operates, so you don't notice the ongoing disaster because it has become normal.
Care to guess what's the ecologically healthiest place in Europe? The 20-mile exclusion zone around Chernobyl :-)