Website review: Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than N...
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liquidiridium rated 3 months ago- From the page: "Over the past few decades, however, a series of studies has called these stereotypes into question. Among the surprising conclusions: the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts. In fact, fly ash's a by-product from burning coal for power contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste. At issue is coal's content of uranium and thorium, both radioactive elements. They occur in such trace amounts in natural, or "whole," coal that they aren't a problem. But when coal is burned into fly ash, uranium and thorium are concentrated at up to 10 times their original levels. Fly ash uranium sometimes leaches into the soil and water surrounding a coal plant, affecting cropland and, in turn, food. People living within a "stack shadows" the area within a half- to one-mile (0.8- to 1.6-kilometer) radius of a coal plant's smokestacks" might then ingest small amounts of radiation. Fly ash is also disposed of in landfills and abandoned mines and quarries, posing a potential risk to people living around those areas."
- TroubledTribble rated 4 months ago
- Glad I burn wood!
- TheBigKlosowski rated 4 months ago
- Who would have thought?
- DarkCloud14 rated 4 months ago
- From the page: "fly ashâ€"a by-product from burning coal for powerâ€"contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste."
- landers53 rated 4 months ago
- Well, this is interesting. The fact that coal ash is more readioactive than nuclear power is a fact that coal companies probably don't want anyone to know. I still am not a nuclear power proponent though. Just too high a rish to take for me.
- psyph3r rated 4 months ago
- Finally some press on this fact. Coal is far more radioactive than nuclear power. you\'d get more radiation from the sun than living next door to a nuclear power plant.
- PenguinSamurai64 rated 4 months ago
- "The waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts. In fact, fly ash-a by-product from burning coal for power-contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste."
- davenme rated 4 months ago
- It's funny when people in denial get rays of truth shone on their simple dark little worlds. Yes, I'm talking about you, amthysteyes2. Just cover your ears and deny deny deny!
- ieapants rated 4 months ago
- From the page: "Then there's the local superhero, Radioactive Man, who fires beams of "nuclear heat" from his eyes. "
"comic book character"... please get the simpson's facts correct. - From the page: "Then there's the local superhero, Radioactive Man, who fires beams of "nuclear heat" from his eyes. "
- sh0rtbus56 rated 4 months ago
- way to be a troll amthystbitcheyesgay2
