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To: bt_dooftlook
Just as a note - my understanding (as related to me by a college prof 30 years ago) is that significant amounts of radiation are released by burning coal - I believe it was because there were trace radioactive elements in all of our major coal beds. Anyone else here this or is it malarkey?

Yes, there are trace radioactive elements in almost everything natural. If nothing else, a carbon source such as coal will contain some C13 and C14.

108 posted on 03/15/2011 12:26:32 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton
http://www.spartonres.ca/uraniumsecondary.htm

Wow, half a pound of yellowcake uranium per tonne of coal fly ash! Interesting!

That certainly puts the TVA Kingston spill into perspective - 300 acres and a riverbed inundated with fly ash slurry. About 2.6 million cubic yards of ash, or about 6,910 tons of ash, so, ~1.5 tons of uranium spilled from a coal power plant? Talk about radioactive contamination, wow.

114 posted on 03/15/2011 11:58:15 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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