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Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle... by pfdietz on Saturday November 09, 2019 @10:55PM (#21496301)
Since the longest lived isotope of sulfur has a half-life of 87 days, those coal deposits must be REALLY young.
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Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle... by hollerith on Saturday November 09, 2019 @10:59PM (#21496313)
Not necessarily: the sulfur might be continually created from the decay of a radioisotope of longer half-life.
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Re:German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nucle... by pfdietz on Sunday November 10, 2019 @05:49AM (#21497455)
It's not.

Let's be clear: the claim that burning coal releases radioactive sulfur and carbon is wrong. There are radioactive materials released, but they are from contaminants like uranium and its decay products.

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