Re: Radioactivity from burning coal

[Free Spirit <FRANK@rover.bsd.UCHICAGO.EDU>]

>The ash is put in a landfill somewhere, even if it is not released
>to the air.  Still I agree that it is not a hazard, but what is
>perplexing is that while it is okay to dump hundreds of Curies of
>Uranium and Thorium in a landfill the relatively innocuous radwaste
>generated by hospitals and universities must be held for disposal in
>sites yet to be developed. ...

	Anybody besides me remember Yablon's great observation that if
	the typical human who died in a hospital was treated under the same
	rules as those applicable to labratory animals, THEY would have to
	be treated as low-level waste?