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Originally Posted by MGB=MPG
* Big piles of coal ash*
indeed ,, that waste pond failure you cite is costing me on my power bill.
the Cumberland *Steam Plant* waste pile is going into a meteor crater .. hard by the river. . should that one fail it would play billy hell with my water supply ''
one wonders ,, if they burn 20K tons coal a day , how many tons of waste [ with what constituents] go in that waste pile
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A typical coal fired powerplant releases more radioactive bioproducts into the atmosphere than a nuclear plant creates during the same duration. Oddly thorium, radium, uranium, mercury, lead, bismuth, etc is found in trace amounts throughout coal, nice side effect. But it is massively dilluted of coarse but it is emitting it into the air and obviously into the ash.
The best use of coal ash would be to require it reprocessed into cinder blocks and cement, back in the day we did things like that but when was the last time you saw a "new" cinder block?
Otherwise the crap should go back into the ground where it came from