Re Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste - Scientific American

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Synthesis:Law and Technology" <synthesis.law.and.technology () gmail com>
> Date: June 1, 2017 at 12:33:40 PM EDT
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste - Scientific American
>
> Dave,
>
> This article from ten (10) years ago was widely discredited at the time, and for good reason.  Comparing fly ash to 
> nuclear waste without, well, actually comparing, it's clickbait at best.  The whole idea of nuclear waste is that it 
> gets contained and disposed of so people living around a plant are not affected.   
>
> The original article was much worse.  Here's a quote from the correction they had to make:
>
> *Editor's Note (12/30/08): In response to some concerns raised by readers, a change has been made to this story. The 
> sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from "In fact, fly ash—a by-product from burning coal for power—and 
> other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste" to "In fact, the fly ash emitted by a 
> power plant—a by-product from burning coal for electricity—carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more 
> radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy." Our source for this statistic is Dana 
> Christensen, an associate lab director for energy and engineering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as well as 1978 
> paper in Science authored by J. P. McBride and colleagues, also of ORNL.
>
> Dan Steinberg
>
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> > On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/



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