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This is a bad stat. Chernobyl is still radioactive. Coal plants don’t irradiate whole regions

> Coal plants don’t irradiate whole regions

They absolutely do. Where do you think that radioactive soot goes?

It’s so dilute compared to something like a nuclear meltdown.. like orders of magnitude

It still exists, and a normally-operating coal plant produces far more radioactive contamination than a normally-operating nuclear plant, by orders of magnitude: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

"the solution to pollution is dilution"