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thfurantoday at 12:31 AM1 replyview on HN

It's not really a problem. The alternative is to grind it up into fine dust, spray it into the air, and call it "clean coal".


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fshtoday at 3:29 AM

That would poison the entire country. Nuclear waste is many many orders of magnitude more radioactive than coal per energy generated. The meme about coal emitting more radiation comes from a 1970s paper that compared radioactive emissions and found them to be on the same order of magnitude between a BWR and an unfiltered coal power plant.