I forgot to mention that air pollution from coal power kills an estimated 50,000 Americans annually. Where are the environuts when you need them? Hell, if one person gets a sneeze as the result of nuclear power, they're marching in the streets.
I live in CA, and I'm lucky that we use natural gas rather than coal to generate electric power in my area (San Jose). So I can still breath. But the problem is that we use natural gas for both electric power and heating, cooking, etc. If the supply is disrupted, we're hosed. Why can't the idiots who control CA energy policy figure that out?
'sbecause the winds blow from west to east.