[ RadSafe ] coal andfly ash

[Bernard L. Cohen]

What everyone misses in considering radiation from coal ash is the radon 
that will be admitted from the U, Th, Ra deposited, for many thousands 
of years afterward. Yhis is much more important than all other effects, 
as explained in my paper: 

The Role of Radon in Comparison of Environmental Effects of Nuclear

     Energy, Coal  Burning, and Phosphate Mining, Health Physics  

          40,19 (1981).-

Bernard L. Cohen
Physics Dept., University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel: (412)624-9245  Fax: (412)624-9163
e-mail: blc at pitt.edu  web site: http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc