"David Hansen" wrote in message
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On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:35:50 +0000 someone who may be Mike Halmarack
wrote this:-

I think you're right. I think Guy is right too, if he meant that coal
fired power allows more radiation escape than nuclear, when the
nuclear power station is running as intended.

What is interesting is the way the pro-nuclear lobby concentrates on
the power stations, at least as far as nuclear is concerned. They
don't do this accidentally.

However, in the case of coal the same people are happy to being the
deaths of thousands of coal miners into their discussion. The double
standards are amusing.

What double standards?
In the UK the number of deaths from nuclear accidents can be counted on your
fingers and most of those are in weapons manufacture.
The same is not true for the deaths caused by coal and oil.