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[-] village604@adultswim.fan 136 points 22 hours ago

What's funny is that coal power puts 100x more radiation into the environment than nuclear power.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 54 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Apparently its also why fish are high in mercury because mercury in burnt coal eventually finds its way to the ocean.

[-] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 29 points 19 hours ago

It's not even really an eventually, it's about a direct as you get. It is exhausted into the sky, gets caught in the water cycle and rains back down to earth.

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