Recent content by Repairman

Where did the US spend billions cleaning up our test sites and relocating locals? All they ever have done is just exclude people in the first place, and close them off to the public. As for the Japanese cities, the only reason you know anything ever happened there is that they have built...

Coal ash is not, pound-for-pound, as radioactive as nuclear waste (whatever you mean by that) but there are bazillions of times more of it released into the environment, dumped into rivers, etc., so the overall amount of radioactive contamination released is quite a bit more.

I live in Utah. There has been talk about building a reactor here, near Green River, which is pretty isolated. It was iffy before and now it probably won't happen. But the basic problem is, worldwide, where you have cooling water you have people. Moving the power a long distance isn't that big...