Re: The Sun, The Wind and Nuclear Power?

[BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@PITT.EDU>]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, andre geerdink wrote:



> You should also take into account the radioactive emissons and ashes

> generated in a coal burning power plant.

> I read Po 210 emissions are estimated on 10 Bq/g in combustion dust.  ->

> 0.0001 man.Sv/MW Year?

> Does anyone have more information about the ra emissions from coal plants

> and nuclear plants?



	--The important radiation effect from coal burning is the radon

released from the unburned materials from coal use. As shown in my

paper "The role of radon in comparisons of effects of radioactivity

releases from nuclear power, coal burning, and phosphate mining", Health

Physics 40:19ff;1981, the deaths caused by this radon (assuming LNT) is

about 30/MWe-yr from coal burning, which is 1000 times larger than the

number caused by nuclear power.

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