Re: role of forest fires in CO2 emissions

[Susan Gawarecki <loc@ICX.NET>]

Tom,



There is some info on radionuclides in coal at the following URL.

http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html



I don't know about radionuclides in oil, but natural gas can have a

significant radon content and certainly NORM is a problem in the solids

(scale) that build up in drilling pipes.



I read recently that one LWR fuel pellet (about 1/2 inch by 1/4 inch in

size) has the same energy equivalent as 3 tons of coal.  That figure

would be useful for calculating avoided CO2 emissions.

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Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director

Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee

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