Re: Nuke CO2 Emissions (Was: Re: Nuke -> Solar Conversion at Rancho Seco

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From: Al Thompson
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 1990 19:17

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In article <766@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> finfrock@ncis (Scott Finfrock) writes:
|In article <536@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> ries writes:
|>
|>    This report lists CO2 emissions from nuclear reactors as "negligible",
|>    but added that a typical commercial nuclear plant emits
|>    "8-9.5 curies of radioactive carbon-14 annually", environmentally
|>    on par with natural gas fuel although the risks are "dramatically
|>    different."
|
|What the report probably didn't mention is that this 
|is NATURALLY OCCURING carbon-14 and that if a fossil fuel plant 
|releases 100 times as much carbon (and they do) then they also 
|release 100 times as much radio-active carbon-14!

I'm puzzled.  How does the C-14 from a nuclear plant differ from the
"naturally occurring" C-14 found in fossil fuel?  How are the risks
"dramatically different"?  Is somebody trying to say they are different?

Then there is the K-40 emitted from fossil fuels.  It has a very long half
life.

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From: art@cs.bu.edu (Al Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Nuke CO2 Emissions (Was: Re: Nuke -> Solar Conversion at Rancho Seco
Keywords: Nuclear CO2 emissions over total fuel cycle
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