Comments by "Cees Timmerman" (@CTimmerman) on "The political sabotage of nuclear power" video.

Fun fact: Coal power plants emit more radioactive waste/fuel than nuclear power plants.
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It's time for a nuclear industry president instead of a fossil fuel one.
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@clarkkent9080 Politicians permit power plants with laws and subsidies.
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48 cheap nuclear power plants in 5 years, with only one meltdown. Pretty good compared to dams that have killed more per MWh.
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@clarkkent9080 "Studies show that ash from coal power plants contains significant quantities of arsenic, lead, thallium, mercury, uranium and thorium[1]. To generate the same amount of electricity, a coal power plant gives off at least ten times more radiation than a nuclear power plant." - European Parliament question on waste, noting some uranium is captured from coal smoke, 4 Nov 2022, E-003567 "Radiological Impact from Airborne Routine Discharges of Coal-Fired Power Plant NorasalwaZakaria, R ohyizaB a’an and Sivapalan Kathiravale Unit Pembangunan Teknologi Sisa Bahagian Teknologi Alam Sekitar, Agensi Nuklear M aiavsia. __ , . . MY1204151 Abstract Radioactivity exists everywhere in nature. We are exposed to intense and continuous natural radiation coming from the sun, cosmic radiation, telluric radiation and even to the internal radiation of our own body. The fly ash emitted from burning coal for electricity by a power plant carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy. This paper presents the information of studies on the radiological impact from airborne routine discharge of coal-fired power plants." - Concerning radioactive pollution of their immediate environment.
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@clarkkent9080 "a maximum of 1.9 millirems of fly ash radiation" - So that's the 1% that got through the US scrubbers. Where does the rest go? "Background radiation" from building materials using fly ash? "Nuclear plants release radioactivity in their stack and water emissions" - Wtf? You mean at rod production facilities? Aren't those stacks and pipes scrubbed at least as well as coal ones?
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 @clarkkent9080 And fly ash, probably. There was more detail in my quotes from accredited sources but those comments disappeared.
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@clarkkent9080 Then why do utilities lobby politicians? 2022-01-05 Virginia Mercury article: Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin announced Trump EPA chief and former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler as his pick for Virginia’s next secretary of natural and historic resources. Wheeler, who served as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2019 until the end of President Donald Trump’s administration, was an outspoken proponent of environmental deregulation during his tenure, ruffling feathers even among his own agency scientists. The former coal lobbyist’s views on climate change have also troubled many environmentalists. While Wheeler during confirmation hearings for his EPA appointment said that “climate change is real” and “man has an impact on it,” he subsequently oversaw the unwinding of numerous regulations to reduce climate change-causing greenhouse gas emissions. Among the actions taken during his tenure were the rollback of President Barack Obama’s never-enacted Clean Power Plan to reduce emissions from coal plants as well as the Obama administration’s stricter fuel efficiency standards for automobiles. Current Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring sued Wheeler and his EPA at least six times over environmental issues. Since the end of his EPA term, Wheeler has slowly inched into Virginia politics. In September, he spoke out against a five-cent plastic bag tax during a hearing before Fairfax County’s Board of Supervisors. In November, following sweeping Republican victories in Virginia elections, he was appointed to Youngkin’s transition team.
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