Nimbys are complaining about potential "danger from batteries" due to solar farms; but TBH this is surely far less than the danger caused by similar batteries in vehicles travelling at 110 km/h (or more) and society is willing to accept that (and the Fire Brigade is already prepared for it).
1,5 km from a school is plenty enough distance for the Emergency Services to deal with any incident even if a battery did go up...
@vfrmedia I bet if you checked the relevant zoning laws you can build a fossil or nuclear power plant closer to homes than that
@elomatreb there's a visitor centre and various houses barely 300m away from Sizewell B nuclear power station (at the other end of the same county, on the coast)
Radioactive release from a nuclear power plant operations is actually 100x lower than from a coal power plant. The latter releases quite a lot of radioactive elements with the vast amounts of fly ash - which of course is not considered radioactive waste because it's "traditionally" considered safe.
