
“Clean Coal”? The ugly truth is it is dirty power well beyond CO2 emissions.
“Americans living near coal-fired power plants are exposed to higher radiation doses than those living near nuclear power plants that meet government regulations…the main sources of radiation released from coal combustion include not only uranium and thorium but also daughter products produced by the decay of these isotopes, such as radium, radon, polonium, bismuth, and lead…the energy content of nuclear fuel released in coal combustion is more than that of the coal consumed”
https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0932/ML093280447.pdf
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