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Nuclear Power: Risking a Comeback

Quote: "Calvin Nolt gets more harmful radiation from a day in the sun than from a year near the Three Mile Island Generating Station."
Question: Why is it that you get more harmful radiation from the sun that near a generation station? Doesn't the station give off more radiation than the sun does?
Comment: The quote I picked was actually from the caption from the picture and it interested me because I didn't understand how you could get more radiation from the sun in one day and less from a generating station in a year. I didn't understand how this could be possible because doesn't the generating station give off more radiation so you would get more radiation posioning from there rather than the sun.

Clean Coal? New Technology Buries Greenhouse Emmisions

Quote: "As energy prices continue to climb, researchers are stepping uptheir efforts to turn black, dirty coal into a green, clean fuel of the future."
Question: How can you turn black coal into green fuel? what would it be used for?
Comment: This comment confused me because I didn't really understand how you could turn black coal into a green fuel. I mean how can something as black as coal turn into a green like substance like fuel.