[ashtonkem]

You’d be surprised how many people die every year from coal power exhaust.

People naturally overweight low frequency high impact events like a nuclear meltdown but drastically undervalue high frequency low impact events. Someone dying early because they lived too close to a coal plant doesn’t make the news, but in terms of actual human impact it trounces nuclear’s impact by multiple orders of magnitude.

[ben-schaaf]

Coal power plants also carry a lot more radiation into their surrounding environment than nuclear power plants: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

[EricE]

Yes, the real irony - coal plants release more radiation into the environment than nuclear plants ever have - including Chernobyl.

[ashtonkem]

A great example of a low impact, high frequency event being underweighted.