If you could choose between nuclear or coal power plants, which would you choose?

Question

If there is a power plant anywhere near your home or work would you rather it be a nuclear or a coal power plant and why? I'm doing a class porject on this question and I would like to get some other people's opinions about this subject on this topic.

Answer 1

Coal is stinky and creates nice black clouds, and hangs around, living near that would really be bad. Nuclear is clean and sometimes melts down. For the most part it is clean. The atomic energy comission has many guidlines they have to follow to insure they meet requirements to avoid a meltdown. So Nuclear is better.

Nuclear may kill you, and you also may win the lottery.

Coal will definitly lower your life expectancy breathing it in all day.

Answer 2

I would prefer a Nuclear Power plant. In the United States PWR's are very safe efficient and environmentally friendly. You do not have to worry about your water becoming radioactive like most people think. The Primary coolant system water never touches the steam plant water and the steam plant water never touches the river cooling water. If for some reason you did have a breach of the primary coolant system most plants have a fill system to keep the reactor covered and the plant will scram. There is no equal to Nuclear Power. Coal is bad for the environment. The radiation recieved by a person working in a nuclear power plant is less than that of a person roasting on the beach. The safety systems and inherently stable design of U.S. reactors make it impossible to have an incident like chernobyl in the United States. I would rather not breath the dirty air of the coal plant.

Answer 3

Coal is cheap and easy to acquire. easy to handle too.
Nuclear plant is toooo dangerous and the people living around it are always in danger. A Nuclear plant's wall is more than 70 to 100cm thick concrete so that the radio active radiations dont go out and poison the atmosphere. Moreover, The nuclear wastes are completely destroying the cultivation of the land where they are burried. I can list hundreds of side effects of nuclear plant as well as some advantages too.

1Kg of Uranium, when burnt, gives energy equal to 3 million KG of Coal.
So What do you think ?

Answer 4

Nuclear. Not near as much pollution as coal. By now they can make the nuclear plants a lot safer than they used to.

Answer 5

I would feel safer near a coal power plant. iIt is safer and i wouldn't have to worry about radioactive contamination.
The acceptable distance from a nuclear power plant is considered to be 30km if anything happens. But you'd better ask guys from Chernobyl, Ukraine about it.

Answer 6

Cloal plants have a bad name,but the people up north have lived in it for century's and most are doing fine. When I lived up north all my white clothes had a Gray color.
Now days the power plants require scrubbers on the exhaust,this removes about 98% of all pollutants except CO2 which is not a pollutant. It is required for the plants to live. The plants have absorbed 99% of all CO2.

Answer 7

I guess a coal plant but anyway i wouldn't like to leave near any of them since there would be pollution and noise!

Answer 8

Coal, because nuclears too dangerous, and im tired of hearing about that word.

Answer 9

Both have serious drawbacks but by far the lesser of the two evils is the coal fire plant.

Answer 10

nuclear. that way we wont have to tear down mountains to get the coal to power a city.