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Germans be like (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 9 months ago (31 children)

What comes out of a coal power plant is unburnt coal, which will contain some amount of carbon 14 which is slightly radioactive.

What comes out of a nuclear power station is water vapor. Which is not even slightly radioactive.

Therefore coal power stations output more nuclear material than nuclear power stations, which output none. We live in a world of idiots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The half life of C14 is about 4500 years. Due to the age of coal, generally millions on years it tends to contain crazy small amounts of C14, just like petrol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Crazy small amounts is still a larger amount than zero.

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