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Letter: Letter: Hot coal?

Published 24 September 1994

From F. G. GRISLEY

It is claimed that power stations using ‘clean coal’ technology are
more attractive than nuclear reactors (In Brief, 27 August).

Many years ago I read a report that the radioactivity issuing with the
flue gas from an average coal-fired power station (due to naturally occurring
potassium-40 in coal) was five times that allowed from a nuclear plant.

Is there any truth in this?

F. G. Grisley Barry, Glamorgan

Issue no. 1944 published 24 September 1994

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