[guinness4strength]

Maybe it's because if a coal plant breaks down or has a glitch, there's no chance of nuclear clouds floating out into the general population. Same reason coal plants don't need sirens miles away to warn if "something went wrong."

[sefarkas]

Maybe it's because if a coal plant breaks down or has a glitch, there's no chance of nuclear clouds floating out into the general population. Same reason coal plants don't need sirens miles away to warn if "something went wrong."

Maybe because anti-nukes zealots like you foment fear in the great unwashed causing government to foist regulations on business to give the appearance that something was done. These stories get into the news because there is a collection of reports made to the NRC every day readily available at www.nrc.gov. If the government were so onerous with coal plants as with nukes, the agency would need a terra-server to handle the load of reports coming in from the coal burners.