You know, if something like this happpened to a nuclear power plant, it'd be the
biggest news story of the century:


http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/13/coal.ash.illnesses/index.html

Imagine if a fuel storage pool just split open and all that water poured out!
Whew, the press would be turning themselves inside out to tell you about it, and
every news anchor on the planet would be droning sonorously about the 'terrible
tragedy' of it all.

But because this was a coal disaster, nobody cares.

Why is that?