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From: anne@bmcg.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Radioactivity of coal-fired power plants vs. TMI
Message-ID: <1369@bmcg.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 18:46:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 20 18:46:06 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 02:11:14 EDT
Organization: Burroughs Corporation, San Diego
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I checked the past couple of years of IEEE Spectrum articles on
nuclear power looking for statements on natural sources of
radioactive exposure (granite buildings, high altitudes, natural gas
cooking) compared to TMI.  I could find nothing.  If anyone has figures,
please send me mail.
On a related subject, Consumer Reports, in an article on smoke detectors,
did a nice job of providing perspective when it showed that the additional
radioactive exposure from a smoke detector, when installed high on a wall as
recommended, would be (much?) less than the additional exposure one would
incur by moving from sea level to Denver.

Anne H. Anderson
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