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RE: radioactivity from fossil fuel power stations
Hello from Australia!
Please have a look on the UK NRPB site. The report "NRPB-R327 Radiological
Impact on the UK Population of Industries which Use or Produce Materials
Containing Enhanced Levels of Naturally Occurring Radionuclides - Part I:
Coal-fired Electricity Generation" (March 2001, ~640 K, Acrobat) is ready
for the download (as many other interesting things) at
http://www.nrpb.org.uk/Reports/Reports.htm
<http://www.nrpb.org.uk/Reports/Reports.htm> .
Kind regards
Nick Tsurikov
Eneabba, Western Australia
http://www.eneabba.net/
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard L Cohen [mailto:blc+@PITT.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 21:49
To: MW Charles
Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: radioactivity from fossil fuel power
stations
In comparing nuclear with coal burning electricity,
the exposure
to humans is dominated by radon. When coal is mined out of
the ground and
made to "disappear" as carbon dioxide, its carbon is
replaced in the
ground by other rock which contains U, Th, Ra which
eventually becomes
radon. killing about 30 future Americans per GWe-year. When
Uranium is
mined to produce nuclear fuel, it is prevented from
eventually converting
to radon, and this action saves several hundred American
lives per
GWe-year. These matters are treated in much more detail in
my paper in
Health Physics 40:19ff;1981
Bernard L. Cohen
Physics Dept.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel: (412)624-9245
Fax: (412)624-9163
e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, MW Charles wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
>
> Have there been any recent publications dealing with the
> topic of radioactive emissions from non-nuclear (fossil
> fuels - coal, oil, gas)power stations? I am out of date
> on this topic. I recall that the environmental levels of
> radioactivity in the vicinity of such stations can be
> comaparable or in excess of those around nuclear sites,
> depending on the type and grade of fuel burnt.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Dr Monty Charles
> schoolof Physics & Astronomy
> the University of Birmingham
> Edgbaston
> Birmingham B15 2TT
> Tel +44 (0) 1214143483
> FAX +44 (0) 1214144725
>
>
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