Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-31035787-20130307093710/@comment-5116706-20130311123411

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?