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From: bitmap@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
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Subject: re: Nuclear power reduces radioactivity
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Date: Tue, 1-May-84 02:48:02 EDT
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Jon White reports that, because uranium contains much more
radioactive elements than coal, that it is "absolutely not true"
that more radioactivity is released per kilowatt-hour from a
coal-fired electric plant than from a nuclear electric plant.

The problem with coal is, while the uranium fuel and radioactive
byproducts in a nuclear power plant are contained within the
reactor, the radon and other radioactive elements in coal are
released into the atmosphere (and our lungs) when the coal is
burned.  This is aside from the ordinary carcinogenic particulates
that coal-fired power plants produce.

Sam Hall
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