You are mistaken. Uranium in coal ash is in the same concentration as in soil. There is no increase in background when the screening is the same. Fossil fuels do dilute carbon-14 in the atmosphere so our food is less radioactive as a result.

RTFA

Doesn't go into the atmosphere, it is scrubbed or remains at the bottom. You've likely been bamboozled based on your comment. The nuclear industry put out some false info on this a while back. Fossil fuel use reduces rather than increases radiation exposure.

Part of the EPA's instructions are to consider the costs of regulations. Since new reactors are supposed to be safer, it should be free of cost to tighten regulations. This would be the time to tighten rather than loosen regulations.

Bogus. We are adapted to background radiation but it still causes cancers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

Many were killed by the evacuation.

You use this phrase but don't seem to understand what is means, "significant associations" is the opposite of what you are saying.

Some higher altitude cities in the US show lower average performance in Luminosity's tests. http://www.dailytech.com/Lumos... Though Provo and Ft. Collins are doing OK.

Standards for small reactors should be stronger to avoid greater exposure for the public. Replacing one large reactor with fifty smaller reactors increases public exposure by a factor of fifty unless the standard is strengthened by a factor of fifty for the small reactors.

Strip mines do get returned to grade and much faster than exclusion zones can be re-inhabited. So, you don't really have a point here. Turns out Germany is managing much butter than Japan. http://www.forbes.com/sites/am...

Compare the uranium content of coal ash and low carbon soil. It's the same. It is well known that carbon-14 comes from thermal neutron absorption by nitrogen in the upper atmosphere. Isolating carbon from the atmosphere causes the fraction of carbon-14 to fall. This is how radiocarbon dating works. Diluting the atmospheric carbon with fossil carbon reduces the carbon-14 content of food and thus our internal radiation load.

So, in Brussels there is a office to subsidize food production and another to destroy the food surplus according to Minister Hacker. Now we will have oil spills to destroy all the effort put into restoring the Chesapeake Bay. It used to be funny on TV, but in real life it just looks stupid.

Coal ash is old soil. It screens radiation just as much as soil. There is no increase in radiation. In fact, dilution of carbon-14 in the atmosphere (and thus food) leads to reduced radiation exposure as a result of fossil fuel use.

"Johns Hopkins scientists report that rats exposed to high-energy particles, simulating conditions astronauts would face on a long-term deep space mission, show lapses in attention and slower reaction times, even when the radiation exposure is in extremely low dose ranges. The cognitive impairments — which affected a large subset, but far from all, of the animals — appear to be linked to protein changes in the brain, the scientists say." http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org...