Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-31035787-20130307093710/@comment-5525546-20130311164002

Supertoastfairy wrote: Coal power plants release more radiation to the environment than nuclear power plants, as well as thousands of tonnes of toxic waste, fly ash, acid rain, scrubber sludge, tonnes of coal tar, they put heavy metals into the environment, are a source of acid mine drainage, pump millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (which cause global warming) into the air. Yet people don't freak out about coal power plants. In China the Banqiao dam on the Ru river burst in 1975 and up to 230,000 people were killed. Yet people freak out about nuclear power, yet they don't freak out about dams used in hydroelectric plants?

The term nuclear scares people. The media doesn't help it either. Nuclear energy is fairly clean in reality but everyone thinks they have some deadly instant death in them. (redundant...) as for the china dam. What brains said, and the fact it was an old dam, China isn't exactly full of places, and you can't walk without running into the residents.