This isn't as widely known as it should be: fly ash forms the majority of Britain's low-level nuclear waste, by tonnage and by activity; and I am annoyed at the derogation that allows it to be disposed (or rather distributed) without the expensive precautions that accompany 'real' nuclear waste.
Meanwhile, most of the radioactivity goes up the chimney: and its worth remembering that Uranium and Thorium are a *minor* component of the heavy metal load in a coal furnace exhaust.
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Date: 2013-04-06 09:44 am (UTC)Meanwhile, most of the radioactivity goes up the chimney: and its worth remembering that Uranium and Thorium are a *minor* component of the heavy metal load in a coal furnace exhaust.