Reply #293: tons of Uranium/mercury.. are dumped by the coal fire power plants.>>Link>>

[sam sarrha]

the 1000 tons of uranium we dumped using it as a Weapon of mass Distruction in iraq using Depledted Uranium weapons, is causing about 16% of births there to be with "Extreme Birth Defects" google that, but beware of graphic photos

it is obvious Uranium is a neurotoxin because of all the babys born without brains in iraq because of DU WMD, it isnt the radioactivity of Uranium but its heavy metal toxisity

an articke about heavy metal polution from coal by alex gabbard
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html

by alex gabbard
"Because existing coal-fired power plants vary in size and electrical output, to calculate the annual coal consumption of these facilities, assume that the typical plant has an electrical output of 1000 megawatts. Existing coal-fired plants of this capacity annually burn about 4 million tons of coal each year. Further, considering that in 1982 about 616 million short tons (2000 pounds per ton) of coal was burned in the United States (from 833 million short tons mined, or 74%), the number of typical coal-fired plants necessary to consume this quantity of coal is 154.

Using these data, the releases of radioactive materials per typical plant can be calculated for any year. For the year 1982, assuming coal contains uranium and thorium concentrations of 1.3 ppm and 3.2 ppm, respectively, each typical plant released 5.2 tons of uranium (containing 74 pounds of uranium-235) and 12.8 tons of thorium that year. Total U.S. releases in 1982 (from 154 typical plants) amounted to 801 tons of uranium (containing 11,371 pounds of uranium-235) and 1971 tons of thorium. These figures account for only 74% of releases from combustion of coal from all sources. Releases in 1982 from worldwide combustion of 2800 million tons of coal totaled 3640 tons of uranium (containing 51,700 pounds of uranium-235) and 8960 tons of thorium.

Based on the predicted combustion of 2516 million tons of coal in the United States and 12,580 million tons worldwide during the year 2040, cumulative releases for the 100 years of coal combustion following 1937 are predicted to be:

U.S. release (from combustion of 111,716 million tons):
Uranium: 145,230 tons (containing 1031 tons of uranium-235)

Thorium: 357,491 tons

Worldwide release (from combustion of 637,409 million tons):

Uranium: 828,632 tons (containing 5883 tons of uranium-235)

Thorium: 2,039,709 tons

Radioactivity from Coal Combustion
The main sources of radiation released from coal combustion include not only uranium and thorium but also daughter products produced by the decay of these isotopes, such as radium, radon, polonium, bismuth, and lead. Although not a decay product, naturally occurring radioactive potassium-40 is also a significant contributor."

more
http://www.yarchive.net/nuke/coal_radiation.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mountain+topping+coal&btnG=Google+Search

we should be looking at the plastics chemicals accumulating in children too