Coal power

The replacement of coal fired power plants should have been underway for 60 years but it has stalled because of the unfounded fears of nuclear. If you compare a 1000 MW nuclear plant with a 1000 MW coal plant you will see why. A nuclear plant produces 35 cubic feet of waste per year. That is five 55 gallon drums. This material is safely stored either on site or off site. A coal plant of similar size produces 300,000 tons of ash and 6 million tons of CO2 and kills up to seven million people per year from air pollution. The new small nuclear reactors are designed to use up spent fuel so the storage problem can be eliminated. Although nuclear power plants have been operating in the US for 60 years there has never been anyone injured or killed. The fossil fuel industry has portrayed nuclear power as dangerous and lately the wind and solar people have been doing the same. They both see nuclear as a competitor. The people are slowly waking up to the fact that the solution to climate change is nuclear.