Carbon emissions of solar panels?

[halfeye]

And in addition to the regular, consistent pollution, coal plants also have a small chance of very bad things happening. Except that the the chance is higher than for nuclear plants, and the damage is greater.

Worse than Chernobyl?

The worst radiological disaster resulting from power generation in US history was a coal fly ash spill in Tennessee, in 2008, and that's even before you account for the even worse chemical toxic effects.

Is coal based weapons research dangerous too?

I'm not particularly in favour of coal or against nuclear, but you seem to have been drinking the cool-aid by the gallon.