Mainly because regulators got scared and started adding line items for bogus safety reasons (like expecting to see background radiation levels far below those seen at coal plants due to the fly ash).
I'm not doing so. I'm pointing out that coal plants were allowed to produce more radiation than nuclear plants were allowed to out of fear of that radiation. Because the public is ill-informed about what "radiation" actually is.
Mainly because regulators got scared and started adding line items for bogus safety reasons (like expecting to see background radiation levels far below those seen at coal plants due to the fly ash).
Coal plants are dead, partly due to the fly ash. I'm not sure you want to put nuclear in the same boat?
I'm not doing so. I'm pointing out that coal plants were allowed to produce more radiation than nuclear plants were allowed to out of fear of that radiation. Because the public is ill-informed about what "radiation" actually is.