"Just Wondering" wrote in message
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Coal-fired power plants already produce half of USA's electricity.
EPA-mandated scrubbers make the plants low polluters.

Low by whose standards? The mercury accumulating in our food chain is not
exactly healthy stuff, and one in six American babies has been exposed to
dangerous levels of mercury in utero.

One thing most people don't realize is that radioactive materials are
present in fossil fuels. Coal and oil fired power plants release more
radiation into the environment than a nuclear power plant does.

Until there is an accident, then the nuke plant catches up, including the
ones the Navy has had a few little accidents with resulting in things like
contaminated water being released into harbors. The Navy took one of its
early and unsuccessful submarine reactors, encased it in stainless steel,
and sunk it in the ocean. They went looking for it years later, couldn't
find it.

And then there is the issue of what to do with the spent fuel....