My son works at Nuclear Fuel Industries locally. They make all the fuel for the nuclear navy. One of the nuclear waste experts is a friend of mine. One thing you will never see is a nuclear plant on an old coal fired plant's site. The reason is the ash from the coal has radiation that exceeds that allowed at a nuclear site. Under normal opperation a coal fired plant puts out much more radiation into the atmosphere than a nuclear one. I think Chernobyl teaches a couple of lessons: Communists ignore safety and there has to be a containment building over the reactor.
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