• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’m not defending coal energy. It’s a repeated and factually wrong claim from nuclear power proponents that trace radiation that is more concentrated in ash is somehow on par or even worse than nuclear waste or catastrophes. Just because that claim is wrong doesn’t automatically result in coal ash being fine and dandy.

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      6 months ago

      Both have a storage problem. But coal has a destroys the atmosphere problem. So, yes, trade-offs.

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      6 months ago

      never seen anyone claim that trace radiation from coal is more of a problem, just that it is a problem. cite someone making this “repeated” claim lol otherwise looks like u did a strawman