While the storage of waste from nuclear power plants is a concern, the waste streams from coal fired power plants is also a concern. Besides the ash that comes from coal, there is a significant amount of mercury that is release when coal is burned. In the past 15 years, efforts have been made to remove it from the exhaust gas but you still have to do something with the mercury laced material that comes from scrubbing the exhaust gases.
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“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”
— Joan Robinson, “Contributions to Modern Economics” (1978)
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