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Originally Posted by Rachel Bronwyn
Plant safety is irrelevant when discussing negative effects of the inevitable byproducts of nuclear power: radioactive waste. Increasing the amount of radioactive waste and maintaining long-term safe disposal of it isn't sustainable. Nuclear power is one tool in our kit. It's not a solution though. It poses major hazards coal does not.
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Coal is not a safe fuel either. The ash from burning coal is actually radioactive as well, according to some it's even more dangerous than the waste from nuclear power plants
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-nuclear-waste . That's in addition to the greenhouse gases and acid rain it's already known to produce. Neither are terrific ideas.