NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/talk/environm/5789

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From: [e-mail] (Desiree Bradley)
Subject: Nuclear Power Plants in Eastern Europe
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:30:00 GMT
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The people in eastern Europe probably do not have easy choices.  Their coal
may be a very high sulphur type, like that in Silesia.   The coal mined in
Silesia has a higher sulphur content than most other coal, such as that in
western Canada, has.  Burning that Silesian coal, and burning lots because of
using it for steel mills, has created acid rain that has eaten at historical
buildings in Cracow.  Of course, burning high-sulphur coal creates air
pollution unless there could be some scrubbers installed to lessen the
pollution coming from chimneys of coal-fired plants.  If countries to the
east of Poland burn that coal, or coal like it, they do have a problem.
However, Chernobyl's design and poor safety record hardly inspires confidence
in eastern European nuclear power plants.  And then there are those others
similarly designed and operated.
However, as far as I know, there are no nuclear power plants in Poland.

Desiree Bradley