A company now plans to run nuclear power plants off the radioactive
residue of coal ash.
Winning, David. 2009. "Out of the Ashes: A Small Mining Company Has Big
Plans to Sell the Uranium Left Over When Coal Is Burned." Wall Street
Journal (22 February): Journal Report.
"Sparton Resources Inc., a small Toronto mining company, is betting that
a global renaissance in nuclear power will create a market for an
unlikely fuel source: waste coal ash. Natural coal contains trace
amounts of uranium, and when it is burned to produce electricity,
varying amounts of the radioactive element are left behind in the ash.
Sparton has developed a method for recovering it and says a project
under way at a coal-fired power station in southwestern China is
yielding uranium that could be reused as a fuel for nuclear reactors."
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
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fax 530 898 5901
http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com
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