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The death toll and radioactivity released by coal plants exceed Chernobyl and Fukushima ever year to every few years depending on which casualty estimates we go by. And then the long term environmental effects of coal come on top.

The vast majority of radioactive material we've released through nuclear accidents is far shorter lived isotopes than what gets released from the coal industry. Chernobyl was mostly Caesium and Strontium isotopes with a half life around 30 years.

The comparison is ridiculous.




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