[mpweiher]

> When coal has a major incident, though, it still produces the same pollutants as if it's working correctly.

Yeah. No.

"Coal mining accidents resulted in 5,938 immediate deaths in 2005, and 4746 immediate deaths in 2006 in China alone according to the World Wildlife Fund"

So each year more deaths from coal accidents alone than the entire predicted, somewhat speculative and hard to ever prove death toll from Chernobyl over the next 20 or so years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities

[sillygeese]

What he means to say is that a nuclear meltdown can fuck up a huge area for millenia, but a coal incident can't.