Mining always has been dangerous.
As my youngest son and I watched TV reports about the miners trapped in a West Virginia mine, he mused about who was still using coal.
I answered that much of our electricity in the U.S. and here in Michigan was generated from coal-fired plants. I also pointed out that a recent newspaper article in the Detroit Free Press pointed out that Michigan was in need of new electricity-generating plants and that coal was seen as the probable power source.
He asked the obvious question: why not build nuclear power plants?
Why not, indeed.
