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> The people of the areas surrounding Fukushima and Chernobyl may beg to differ.

Have you been to Kingston, or Martin County, or Buffalo Creek or .... I should stop or I'll be here all day.

Coal has killed hundreds of times as many people, and contaminated thousands of times as much land as nuclear, even including the worst accidents.

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Yup, the funny thing about coal is even from radioactivity perspective it's worse than nuclear.

I think everybody here is in agreement.

Yes, I would also love us to stop using coal, and believe we should asap.

But this doesn't mean that we should be subsidising nuclear, we should be able to see and pay for the true costs of all our power sources. But instead we have crazy incentives where for residential and commercial energy contracts, the more you use the lower your unit cost. So a highly energy efficient house pays more per unit than an inefficient one.

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