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Re: role of forest fires in CO2 emissions
Tom,
A good source of information on radionuclide concentrations in oil,
coal, natural gas, peat is given in the older UNSCEAR reports (1994 and
before). They also include comparative tables for atmospheric discharges
that result from using these materials for electricity production (and
others forms of electricity production including geothermal). Both in
terms of MBq/GWa and also in terms of collective dose (Sv/GWa).
Unfortunately as someone recently pointed out on RADSAFE the older UNSCEAR
reports are not available in pdf format on the web. Although the newer
reports (2000 and 2001) are, and this is welcomed, they generally refer to
the older reports for much of this detail.
I have to hand copies of the 1977, 1986 and 1988 reports and could if you
wished supply limited information from these. If you let me know what
information you want, hopefully keeping it brief, then I will endeavour to
reproduce this information for you in word/excel formats and e-mail it to
you directly. While I will probably regret this the offer is also open to
others who have a specific need, rather than a vague idea of what they want.
Depending on the response, if any, the return e-mails may take a while.
I am assuming, as I haven't seen any replies to the posts requesting
information of pdf versions of earlier reports, that these don't exist.
If someone does know where pdf versions can be obtained, please let me know
and save my typing skills for other posts.
Regards
Julian Ginniver
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas J Savin " <tjsav@LYCOS.COM>
To: "john grant" <grantjoh@pacbell.net>; <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: role of forest fires in CO2 emissions
> Hi John,
>
> Good Information, Thanks. When I envision all the CO2 and smoke and how
fast the crude was burning it may have equalled the US burning rate for coal
resulting in tons of CO2 being from. Maybe global warming should be blamed
on Hussein. (certainly nuclear plants)
>
> Real question -
> Does anyone know of a source or survey of the different amounts and types
of radionuclides found in the various coals (and oils) used for energy
production throughuot the world?
>
> Thanks in advance - Tom
> ---
> Tom Savin
>
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:39:20
> john grant wrote:
> >
> >
> >Thomas J Savin wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Jim, thanks for your thoughts. I am going to post this to all the
members of radsafe for their consideration. We have seen a number of
estimates of the yearly discharge of CO2 into the atmosphere from various
sources. My question to all is how much CO2 was emitted from the burning of
the Kuwait oil fields - during AND after Dessert Storm?
> >
> >To give you an example of how much coal is used, "Railway Age Magazine"
reports that there are about 130,000 car loads of coal moved every week in
the US. Each car carries at least 50 tons of coal.
> >
> >If I have not screwed up in my math, that comes to about 11 tons per
second. This is every second of the year, and similar amounts have been
shipped for many years. Each ton of coal produces about two tons of CO2.
> >
> >John Grant
> >
> >
> >
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