Coal Ash facts
While investigating facts about Coal Ash Uses and Coal Ash Ponds, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The ash from coal power plants contains uranium & thorium and carries 100 times more radiation into the surrounding environment than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
how coal ash is made?
Coal Power Plants generate more radiation than Nuclear Power Plants. Coal contains uranium and thorium, both radioactive elements.They occur in such trace amounts in natural coal. But when coal is burned into fly ash, uranium and thorium are concentrated at up to 10 times their original levels.
What to do with coal ash?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what to do with coal ash from fire. Here are 13 of the best facts about Coal Ash Disposal and Coal Ash Composition I managed to collect.
what's coal ash?
-
Fly ash emitted by a coal power plant carries 100 times more radiation into the surrounding enviornment than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
-
Coal Power Plants generate more radiation than Nuclear Power Plants. Coal contains uranium and thorium, both radioactive elements.They occur in such trace amounts in natural coal. But when coal is burned into fly ash, uranium and thorium are concentrated at up to 10 times their original levels.
-
Titanic's engines burned 600 tons of coal per day. 176 men worked around the clock to shovel it in by hand. 100 tons of ash was also ejected into the sea each day.
-
The potential nuclear energy from the trace amounts of uranium and thorium in coal ash actually exceeds the energy released by burning the coal itself.
-
In December 1915 a miner in the Red Ash Coal mine (Pennsylvania) forgot his carbide lamp hanging from a timber beam that subsequently caught fire. The mine fire continues to burn to this day and is likely to last another century.
-
Radioactive levels in coal ash are up to 10 times higher than in the parent coal itself because of the way combustion concentrates radioactivity.
-
Duke Energy pleads guilty in coal ash case over years of illegal pollution leaking from five power plants, including 39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River which flowed 62 miles downriver.
-
The nations largest coal ash spill happened in TN and workers admitted a box of dust masks were sitting in a tool shed at the site but were ordered destroyed They didn't want people driving by seeing them wearing those dust masks that was not an imaged approved. The public had a big lawsuit
Why coal ash is good?
You can easily fact check what is coal ash and why is it dangerous by examining the linked well-known sources.
