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but they spit out a bunch of other nasty stuff too. Plus: consider death tolls of each power source per KWh:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-human-toll-of-coa...

The more dramatic numbers are for old US coal power plants.

Newer or upgraded coal power plants have less effects.

But generally this is not a beauty contest. Coal power plants have to go. Unfortunately it will take a lot of time and money to replace (or even upgrade) the existing ones.

Power needs to be generated one way or another. Keeping nuclear for longer would mean we can get rid of coal sooner. Those numbers show that this would be a worthwhile trade.

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