Google "coal fired power plant radiation" The following two articles cite "a 1978 paper for Science, J. P. McBride at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)" ht

Google "coal fired power plant radiation" 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.html http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.ht... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste 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#Radioactive_trace_elements http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_power_station#Radio...