What are the emissions from a nuclear power plant vs. a coal plant?
Water Vapor is emitted from the cooling towers at a power plant. Nuclear energy supplies us with enough emission-free electricity each year to serve 60 million homes. Fossil-fueled plants emit carbon dioxide (the primary greenhouse gas), nitrogen oxide (the source of our ozone problems), and sulfur dioxide (the precursor to acid rain) and yes even radioactive particulates that were contained in the coal. Here are the annual “savings” to our atmosphere from U.S.
