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The following two articles cite "a 1978 paper for Science, J. P. McBride at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)"
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.ht...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is...
and Wikipedia says, during normal operation the effective radiation dose from a coal plant is 100 times that of a nuclear power plant, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_power_station#Radio...
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The following two articles cite "a 1978 paper for Science, J. P. McBride at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)"
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.ht...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is...
and Wikipedia says, during normal operation the effective radiation dose from a coal plant is 100 times that of a nuclear power plant, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_power_station#Radio...