Re: radioactivity from fossil fuel power stations

[Susan Gawarecki <loc@ICX.NET>]

Dr. Cohen,



I'm a geologist, but I don't understand what you mean by this statement:



> 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.....



Please clarify this.



Susan Gawarecki

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