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		vidarh on March 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for gree... You could grind it up and intentionally pump it into the air, and it still would likely kill a tiny portion of the number of people killed by coal plants. I mean a whole lot of coal plants do pump uranium dust into the air. If you did it with the nuclear waste you'd pump worse isotopes into the air, but the volume would be tiny.

yellowapple on March 27, 2021 [–]

Hell, I'd bet you could mix it into soft drinks and sell it as "Nuka Cola Quantum" and it'd still be significantly less deadly than coal.

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