In humans it is also possible that genetic alterations have occurred over the span of many generations to induce the radioresistance noted in our study. More research is needed to clarify the mechanisms that make individuals radioresistant.
Annual release of uranium and thorium radioisotopes from coal combustion, predicted by ORNL to cumulatively amount to 2.9 million tons over the 1937-2040 period, from the combustion of an estimated 637 billion tons of coal worldwide.
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According to U.S. NCRP reports, population exposure from 1000-MWe power plants amounts to 490 person-rem/year for coal power plants and 4.8 person-rem/year for nuclear plants during normal operation, the latter being 136 person-rem/year for the complete nuclear fuel cycle.
Among the surprising conclusions: the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts. 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. *
1000MW的火力發電廠會產生5.2公噸的鈾(內含34公斤的鈾235),12.8公噸的釷。1000MW的核電廠會產生30短噸(27公噸)高放射線物質。 A 1,000 MW coal-burning power plant could have an uncontrolled release of as much as 5.2 metric tons per year of uranium (containing 74 pounds (34 kg) of uranium-235) and 12.8 metric tons per year of thorium.[21] In comparison, a 1,000 MW nuclear plant will generate about 30 short tons of high-level radioactive solid packed waste per year.[22]
美國自爆燃燒煤礦如同排放155倍三浬島事故中無法控制的放射能到大氣 It is estimated that during 1982, US coal burning released 155 times as much uncontrolled radioactivity into the atmosphere as the Three Mile Island incident
又自爆正常操作下,燃煤的輻射劑量是核電廠100倍. It should also be noted that during normal operation, the effective dose equivalent from coal plants is 100 times that from nuclear plants.
最後是大絕招,"因此就算你拿車諾比事件來比,也沒有燃煤發電廠造成的傷害還糟糕" Hence, it is not going to cause as much as damage as the uranium and thorium which are released from coal-fired power plants which have much higher half-lives.