Posted on 01/14/2016 5:04:56 PM PST by grundle
In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant - a by-product from burning coal for electricity - carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
I’ve worked with radiation for 40 years, both in medicine and nuclear devices. The claimed terrible catastrophe from this ash maxes out at 5% of the background radiation you get each year, and that is only if you average everything out. Places on the equater, at sea level get less background radiation that places higher up like Colorado. Currently living in Denver exposes you to %500 percent more background radiation that HI. That this “article” sounds the alarm about 5% more radiation to the environment within 1/2 mile of a coal fired power plant is simply preposterous. You can get more by spending a couple of days in the mountains or taking a 4 hour plane flight.
Misleading headline. The EMISSIONS from coal vs. the EMISSIONS from nuclear are the issue. Nuke has close to zero emissions.
your statement is false nuclear plants do release small amounts of radioactive materials into the environment. They are regulated in to how much they are allowed but it is far from zero. A PWR will release radioactive nobel gasses from fission products on a regular and regulatory basis as will it release tritium gas and He3 in trace amounts all these emissions are tightly regulated but they are not zero they are expected to disperse into the atmosphere and.dilute to insignificant concentration very quickly but it is a lie to say nuclear does not release radionuclides into the biosphere on a regular basis.
http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ops-experience/tritium/sites-grndwtr-contam.html
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/tritium-radiation-fs.html\
Tritium is cumilative, the feds have turned off the monitors - it's not rocket science.
“Manmade global warming “
The article is about coal versus nuclear emissions. Facts please.
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