• Ertebolle@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The fact that you’re bringing up Japan (which is massively overblown - you’re at more radiation risk from a coal power plant) shows you’re not serious about this.

    • astraeus@programming.dev
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      I’m curious about the radiation risk from a coal power plant, are radioactive carbon isotopes generated in the coal firing process?

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        1 year ago

        Here’s an article - coal naturally contains trace amounts of radioactive elements and burning a bunch of it concentrates them.

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        Carbon contains radioactive isotopes and if you use a lot of it to generate electricity you end up with a lot of it in a single spot. It’s specifically carbon-14 you measure when using radiocarbon dating to estimate how old an item is.

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        … approximately 2,000 coal samples from the Western United States … concentrations of uranium fall in the range from slightly below 1 to 4 parts per million (ppm). … Coals with more than 20 ppm uranium are rare in the United States. Thorium concentrations in coal fall within a similar 1–4 ppm range, … Coals with more than 20 ppm thorium are extremely rare.

        https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html

        concentrations of coals in China are estimated based on uranium analyses of 1535 coal samples … Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous (J3–K1), and Eogene and Neogene (E–N) coals are 2.91, 5.43, 3.67, 1.18, 1.84, and 3.92 μg/g, respectively. The overall average weighted uranium concentration of coals in China is 2.31 μg/g.

        https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360544206001113

        AFAIK that’s 1.18-5.43 ppm.

        Obviously, when you burn that, it gets concentrated.

    • NiftyBeaks@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance. They probably really do care but have little formal education and also the algorithms have decided to send them to a particular bubble of the internet.