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Old 19-06-2011, 01:07 AM
morls (Stephen)
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Originally Posted by renormalised View Post
However, if you think coal is safer...think again. It is also radioactive, or can be.
Coal's radioactivity is measured as 830 Bq/kg. Uranium's radioactivity is measured as 12,356 Bq/g. To give us the same scale of measurement we need to multiply the Uranium figure by 1000. Gives us:

Coal - 830 Bq/kg
Uranium - 12,356,000 Bq/kg

So yes, I do think coal is safer.

Cheers

Stephen
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