18 Apr '19 09:12>
@humy said"whether they do or not doesn't change the fact that the total amount of radioactivity globally released from coal is many times that globally released from nuclear."
Some might do within their long service life; it just depends. But, even if that is so, that would be missing the point; whether they do or not doesn't change the fact that the total amount of radioactivity globally released from coal is many times that globally released from nuclear. Even taking account that more power is generated from coal globally by taking into account the ...[text shortened]... do so) than nuclear has ever done, and that's with Fukushima and all the nuclear accidents combined.
That is not a fact. Chernobyl released more radiation into the environment than all coal burning in the entire world. That is a fact.