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Oak Ridge Laboratory had a publication years ago in which they said there was more energy in the uranium than there was in the coal that was burned.
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The entire crew is four leftist, brain dead women. I wonder how many abortions they have had.
definitions are everything
Red bricks “technically” are radioactive.
The redness comes from iron minerals in the clay. The iron minerals have naturally occurring mildly radioactive iron isotopes. Also, uranium ores in small amounts are often in-situ with the iron ores.
Uranium averages 10 ppm in fly ash (0.001%), sometimes going up to 30 ppm depending on the sample. (Fissile U-235 is 0.7 percent on average of uranium in nature; U-238 is known to have very weak alpha and gamma emissions.) Comparing a coal plant to a nuclear power plant, the latter of which is designed to confine even the minutest trace of radiation, is comparing apples to oranges.
I was in Nowa Huta a few years after the wall came down and before any controls were in place and the coke ovens & blast furnaces ran 24/7. It was just like the stories I read about Pittsburgh in the old days: streetlights on during the say, air burned your nose and throat and what I thought were snow flurries were coal ash.
So I'm glad we have the pollution controls in place to clean out the sulfur & ash, but once that's done, who cares?
A hundred times practically nothing is still very, very little.
It's fun to inform radiation-phobes that they have radioactive potassium in their bloodstreams. You can just see them get itchy all over.
I was a young boy in the mid 50s and lived with my grandfather, mother and aunt in a wood shack while my dad was off in Korea and elsewhere. We had REA electricity, no running water and a propane powered stove. Had an out-house and a well for water.
What we DID have was a pot belly stove that burned anthracite coal. It warmed the four room house and boiled the water that went into the galvanized tub in which we took baths once a week. To my mind, anthracite coal is hard, clean and has a lot of energy output. I’d burn it today if I could get it in smaller chunks for my fireplace.
"Burning coal generates carbon monoxide, which causes air pollution and can lead to long-term respiratory problems, trigger asthma attacks, and cause chest pains."
Hogwash. A well-tuned boiler combustion system is producing negligible CO (that is unburned fuel and no operator wants unburned fuel to go up the stack) at levels FAR below what would cause those problems. Then you have the enormous dilution when the flue gases exit the stack and mix with the atmosphere.
This is pathetic fear porn.
"...burning coal releases methane into the atmosphere that may cause neurological and cardiovascular diseases"
The existence of methane in coal beds is a well understood and characterized problem. But the article says "BURNING COAL" releases methane. Any methane that arrived with the coal will be completely burned in the furnace. There are ZERO emissions of methane exiting the stack.
Note the "MAY CAUSE." That's because the author can find no evidence based facts that support this.
Exactly.
Total b.s.
The sky was filled with floating fly ash. The ash looks like black, full sized, potato chips. They turn to dust if you squeeze them.
I am certain that fly ash was banned during that time frame.
I lived in Minnesota and Iowa during the 1980s and 1990s.
Many towns in the Midwest had a coal power plant in their downtown area.
By that time frame, there was zero visible smoke, and zero odors, coming from those coal power plants.
Bananas are radioactive...
You know what’s worse for people than radioactive coal ash? Freezing to death in the winter.
Because coal ash is a lot less radioactive than russian reactor puke.
The little bint that wrote this screed is ignorant.
Sodium is an unstable metal that will, if dropped into water, ignite.
Chlorine is a poison.
Should they be banned?
Mix the two and you have table salt — a substance that mammals cannot live without.
Not that the nuts on the left care ‘bout that...The left actually wants to ban chlorine even though a small amount of it in water can make poisonous water safe to drink.
***Fly ash is produced by coal-based power plants and carries 100 times more radiation****
I lived near coal fired plants in NW New Mexico. The fly ash could be seen for miles. Yet there were never warnings about this.
I worked in a coal fired plant in Arkansas. we had electrostatic precipitators that removed 98% of the fly ash, no scrubbers as we used very low sulfur Wyoming coal. Never a warning about radioactive dust at all.
Now that plant has Obama required scrubbers to get the last little bit of sulfur.
Anyone remember the advertisements in magazines in 1968-1972 by the electric industry against using scrubbers?
They were considered an unnecessary joke.
This sounds like fear mongering as was done in the past about “Radon” in houses and radioactive Coleman lanterns.