Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lanl-a.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!cmcl2!lanl-a!jlg From: jlg@lanl-a.UUCP Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: radiation chart Message-ID: <2885@lanl-a.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 23:53:14 EST Article-I.D.: lanl-a.2885 Posted: Fri Mar 2 23:53:14 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 01:23:56 EST References: <401@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 6 You left out proximity to coal powered plants and other industries that burn fossil fuels. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently was asked to test for radiation around such plants and thier findings were that if these plants had been nuclear they would have to be shut down. Fossil fuels (especially coal) contains trace ammounts of radio- active materials which are part of the effluent from the plants.