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Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste
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Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste
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Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
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There's relatively little nuclear waste compared to coal waste. Coal waste is mildly radioactive, but in terms of radioactivity per amount of energy produced, coal is way ahead of nuclear. The total amount of radioactivity released into the environment by coal power stations is far greater than that from nuclear power stations.
Here's a book that explains this, and other issues, in nice clear terms Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know: Amazon.co.uk: Robert Peter Gale, Eric Lax: Books
Coal has killed more people per Gigawatt than Nuclear since the first nuclear reactor went online. Hydroelectric is more lethal than nuclear.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Take a look at this article on wildlife around Chernobyl with very few signs of abnormality:
Life after Chernobyl: Sergei Gaschak
Probably good for you actually, I am off to lick my smoke detector.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)Comment
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1. It's not normal service that scares people about nuclear, it's the risk of abnormal situations. Coal-fired power stations don't melt down and make whole counties uninhabitable.
2. Radioactivity per kWh may be less, and that's interesting or at least amusing, but radioactivity per kg of waste is rather more intense. Otherwise nobody would need to look for places to bury it safely.
Note: I do know that coal sucks. And I do think that nuclear is probably a necessary option, but I do think that we should not stop being scared of it.Job motivation: how the powerful steal from the stupid.Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostThere's relatively little nuclear waste compared to coal waste. Coal waste is mildly radioactive, but in terms of radioactivity per amount of energy produced, coal is way ahead of nuclear. The total amount of radioactivity released into the environment by coal power stations is far greater than that from nuclear power stations.
Here's a book that explains this, and other issues, in nice clear terms Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know: Amazon.co.uk: Robert Peter Gale, Eric Lax: Books
Coal has killed more people per Gigawatt than Nuclear since the first nuclear reactor went online. Hydroelectric is more lethal than nuclear.
Water more deadly than nukeystuff, how???Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostCoal has killed more people per Gigawatt than Nuclear since the first nuclear reactor went online. Hydroelectric is more lethal than nuclear.
Sort of puff you read in mags and the MSM. Even look at some of the comments in SciAm let alone other O&G and engineering sources.If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.Comment
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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostNAT ffs, you can't make a statement like that and not elaborate
Water more deadly than nukeystuff, how???merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Originally posted by hyperD View PostSorry, that post is so misleading, sensationalised and so out of context.
Sort of puff you read in mags and the MSM. Even look at some of the comments in SciAm let alone other O&G and engineering sources.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostNAT ffs, you can't make a statement like that and not elaborate ...
There's a huge amount of ignorance and fear surrounding nuclear power. Sometimes a sensationalised headline is needed to grab sheeple's attention.
Originally posted by Ignis Fatuus View Post1. It's not normal service that scares people about nuclear, it's the risk of abnormal situations. Coal-fired power stations don't melt down and make whole counties uninhabitable...
There are more deaths attributable to hydroelectric power than nuclear in the past 60 years. Mainly due to catastrophic dam failures that happened in China after a devastating earthquake. Hundreds of thousands died.
Hydroelectric power also is responsible for vast quantities of greenhouse gases - from the rotting vegetation when valleys are flooded to make the dams.
Fossil fuels are far deadlier than nuclear power - tech - 23 March 2011 - New Scientist
Of course, nuclear waste gradually gets safer as time goes on. Non-radioactive toxic waste - which needs as much careful handling and is produced in far higher quantities, never gets safer.
(Hmm, perhaps we should mix the two types of waste. Then non-radioactive could become radioactive, then decay into something safer).Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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