A Canadian and South African company are collaborating to see if they can extract uranium from the ashes of coal burnt in the South African coal-fired power stations. Although it is perfectly safe, there's a surprising amount of uranium in some coal deposits. In some cases you can get more energy from the uranium in coal than you can from the coal itself.
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Hi, nice blog
Of course the uranium is safe. Uranium generally is safe, even quite high-concentration ores, if handled correctly. And because of the vast difference between nuclear and chemical energy, of course you can get more from the uranium, if you can separate it and run it in a full-cycle nuclear power system.
No, it's the rest of the ash pile that is dangerous. That and the heedless spewing of tens of thousands of tonnes of waste gases into the atmosphere. Per day.
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