Sentences with phrase «safer than coal»

The most comprehensive peer - reviewed studies done by independent scientists evaluate air pollution, worker safety, and all of the other risks in energy production and find that nuclear is safer than coal, oil, natural gas, and even solar.20, 21

Nuclear power is safer than coal and when construction and operation are included it omits less CO2 than any comparable alternative.

It is about 150 times safer than coal in the USA and about 600 times safer than the world average.

Also, it is safer than coal or oil.

@ Peter Your statistics are fine and highlight that nuclear currently appears far safer than coal.

I for one am glad nukes are being forced to be orders of magnitude safer than coal because the risks are orders of magnitude greater

It shows that, in the EU, nuclear is about 50 times safer than coal generated electricity.

The cost to save a life by replacing coal with nuclear in Australia (at ten times safer than coal) would be about $ 1 million per life (from the figures above).

To get nuclear at a cost competitive with coal, or cheaper, we must jetision our ludicrous requirement that nuclear must be 10 to 100 times safer than coal or we wont accept it.

As long as nuclear is safer than coal, and has a path to become safer still not less safe, that is plenty good enough.

It indicates that nuclear is about 4 orders of magnitude (10,000 times) safer than coal generation.

I think «most people» do require that nuclear be 10 or 100 times safer than a coal plant, in the sense of the plant itself being incredibly reliable with the dangerous materials it deals with.

I've have explained repeatedly why it is ridiculous to require nuclear to be ten time safer than coal or you won't consider it.

According to Figure 2 in the lead article for this thread, nuclear is about 100 times safer than coal in the EU.

We know that nuclear is about 700 times safer than coal http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/06/deaths-by-energy-source-in-forbes.html.

It may be fine to argue, as George Monbiot and others have done with reams of data, that nuclear reactors, even after Fukushima, are vastly safer than coal in terms of lives lost.

Not exact matches

«It's safer than jumping out of a plane or walking on hot coals but it's the same adrenaline rush!»

Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club commented: «Mike Bloomberg's partnership with the Sierra Club and our more than 3 million members and supporters has put our country on a path to cleaner air and cleaner water, good - paying clean energy jobs, and healthier communities that are safe from toxic coal pollution».

Nuclear is still a factor of 600 safer than the main alternative, coal, and still much safer than all other electricity generation technologies (on a fully life cycle basis).

It's two orders of magnitude safer than with coal and about 5 times safer than roof top PV.

Based on the statistics you provide, how many times safer is nuclear than coal?

«There are currently more than enough fossil fuels and coal to push us well past safe atmospheric CO2 levels.»

«There are currently more than enough fossil fuels and coal to push us well past safe atmospheric CO2 levels,» he said.

US nuclear plants, which are tightly regulated, are far cleaner and safer than most coal and gas plants.

It's the reckless mismanagement of the coal industry by CEOs, many of whom are more interested in skirting regulations and scoring political points than in maintaining jobs, modernizing their technology, or keeping their mines safe.

Nuclear power can do these things, and its history is both safer and cleaner than coal, gas, or oil.

Fossil fuel corporations have five times more oil and coal and gas in known reserves than climate scientists think is safe to burn.