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nobo:
I'll have to look into how the feedwater is returned to nature, but I was fairly certain that it did not come out irradiated.

As for accidents. The number of people that have died from faulty nuclear reactors is extremely small compared to the amount of people that have died from coal mines and oil drilling rigs.

Inlander:
The problem with Nuclear Power, though, is not so much the risk of accidents, as the fact that on those very rare occasions when accidents do happen, the damage they can do to the surrounding environment is exponentially worse and longer-lasting than the damage caused by accidents from other kinds of power plants.

I mean, if a coal power plant explodes, we're not going to have cancer spikes in the surrounding area generations after the fact.

nobo:
You're right, but thats why the newer plants being designed have multiple back up safety features.  Other than Chernobyl there haven't been any big nuclear power plant accidents that have resulted in death, and even Chernobyl's death count is only at 56. Granted that is a Soviet count, but its still much smaller than you'd imagine.

Vendetagainst:
The damage done at Chernobyl FAR surpassed the death toll.

est:
There is a dead-zone around the area called the "Zone of Alienation".  Wiki says it's a 30km exclusion zone, but I am not sure if that means 30km radius or diameter.  Either way that is a big patch of land that has been rendered unusable.

Also, mining for the fuel for said nuclear reactors is usually done by really really dirty methods.

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