• village604@adultswim.fan
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    14 hours ago

    What’s funny is that coal power puts 100x more radiation into the environment than nuclear power.

    • BlueDemon@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 hour ago

      There’s been talk about re-opening the mines in Wales too and I’m sat here like why?? We already export more power, water and other resources than we get back and building nuclear plants on those sites would likely do more to lower costs of power

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Apparently its also why fish are high in mercury because mercury in burnt coal eventually finds its way to the ocean.

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        11 hours ago

        It’s not even really an eventually, it’s about a direct as you get. It is exhausted into the sky, gets caught in the water cycle and rains back down to earth.

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        7 hours ago

        specifically tuna, its the bioaccumulation on the food web, the TUNA eats other animals that have mercury in it, that eats smaller animals that filter mercury, it piles up.

      • Spice Hoarder@lemmy.zip
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        6 hours ago

        Right, but this is a clear gatcha since all people want to talk about when it comes to nuclear is “toxic green sludge” and storage, as if the rocks didn’t already come from inside a mountain…