If the plant around my corner "explodes", I cannot run away
If the plant around your corner "explodes" you cannot run away, I don't need to run away since it's nowhere near me and since it's exploding it's probably not a nuclear plant but could be some kind of chemical plant or possibly a slim jim plant. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/09/north.carolina.collapse/
The fact that you mention coal mining but think uranium etc. is not mined is also slightly irritating.
Oh it's mined but in america the popular way of doing it is In-situ leaching where they pump a mix of water and baking soda into the hole and pump out the water after the uranium has dissolved into it. Much safer than how coal is mined.
The other nuclear accidents you seem not to know
Because while there are plenty of pissant "a bottle of radioactive material cracked in a lab in the middle of a plant and it was completely contained" accidents but when it comes to significant accidents/accidents which actually killed people or had any real potential to kill people those are the 2. When I look for civilian nuclear incidents the list has a handful per decade and very few involved any deaths or even release of radioactive material. Which is a pretty good record all round. If anyone cared enough to record deaths due to falling solar panels I wonder which industry would have the better record.
No it's not. there's a few parts per million of uranium and thorium in coal, when you're burning billions of tons of the stuff that adds up fast, some of that material escapes into the atmosphere while the vast majority ends up in vast mountains of fly ash where it can freely leech into the ground water. Check your facts.
Where the heck should the "radiactive" contamination of coal should come from? Sure, some coal mines might have such a contamination, but all coal? How that?
This seems to shock some greens because they have no understanding of what "background radiation" actually means but there's a certain amount of radioactive material in just about everything. it's not a matter of contamination.
you omit the fact that mining uranium and processing it and transporting it mainly is still done with fossil fuels
And you obviously have never bothered to pick up and pen and do the math because this is trivial.
So in the near future building more nuclear plants will increase the CO2 exhaust in a similar way as a new coal plant would.
Until the coal plant has been running for a day or so it might but you really have no grasp of basic math do you.
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If the plant around my corner "explodes", I cannot run away
If the plant around your corner "explodes" you cannot run away, I don't need to run away since it's nowhere near me and since it's exploding it's probably not a nuclear plant but could be some kind of chemical plant or possibly a slim jim plant. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/09/north.carolina.collapse/
The fact that you mention coal mining but think uranium etc. is not mined is also slightly irritating.
Oh it's mined but in america the popular way of doing it is In-situ leaching where they pump a mix of water and baking soda into the hole and pump out the water after the uranium has dissolved into it.
Much safer than how coal is mined.
The other nuclear accidents you seem not to know
Because while there are plenty of pissant "a bottle of radioactive material cracked in a lab in the middle of a plant and it was completely contained" accidents but when it comes to significant accidents/accidents which actually killed people or had any real potential to kill people those are the 2.
When I look for civilian nuclear incidents the list has a handful per decade and very few involved any deaths or even release of radioactive material.
Which is a pretty good record all round.
If anyone cared enough to record deaths due to falling solar panels I wonder which industry would have the better record.
That is an urban myth.
No it's not.
there's a few parts per million of uranium and thorium in coal, when you're burning billions of tons of the stuff that adds up fast, some of that material escapes into the atmosphere while the vast majority ends up in vast mountains of fly ash where it can freely leech into the ground water.
Check your facts.
Where the heck should the "radiactive" contamination of coal should come from? Sure, some coal mines might have such a contamination, but all coal? How that?
This seems to shock some greens because they have no understanding of what "background radiation" actually means but there's a certain amount of radioactive material in just about everything. it's not a matter of contamination.
you omit the fact that mining uranium and processing it and transporting it mainly is still done with fossil fuels
And you obviously have never bothered to pick up and pen and do the math because this is trivial.
So in the near future building more nuclear plants will increase the CO2 exhaust in a similar way as a new coal plant would.
Until the coal plant has been running for a day or so it might but you really have no grasp of basic math do you.